Especially after the recent dustup with his former partner, Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg, the man who once looked like a kind of digital Messiah, now looks considerably more sinister. Hughes, who helped start Facebook and left the firm’s employ some ten years ago, has made his position well know in writing and interviews. Both Zuckerberg and Facebook, he says, remain entirely unaccountable, particularly on privacy concerns and election interference. To be sure, not all those rules would necessarily suit Facebook, but they would definitely tend toward the sorts of things with which Facebook could willingly comply. The FTC has hesitated on breakup to date because Facebook has given no sign of price gauging or poor service, two classic monopoly signals.

Source: Forbes May 14, 2019 21:00 UTC