Facebook Inc co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Chris Hughes called for the break up of the world’s largest social media network in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Thursday. Hughes joins U.S. lawmakers who have also urged anti-trust action to break up big tech companies as well as federal privacy regulation. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power—over our economy, our society, & our democracy. “It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade. In one of a number of security and privacy scandals to hit the company, Facebook is accused of inappropriately sharing information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Source: Hindustan Times May 09, 2019 15:33 UTC