Article 4ESR0 Facebook cofounder calls for company to break up over 'unprecedented' power

Facebook cofounder calls for company to break up over 'unprecedented' power

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Adam Gabbatt in New York and Kari Paul in San Fran
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Chris Hughes wrote in the New York Times Facebook's acquisition of rival platforms has given Zuckerberg 'un-American' control

A cofounder of Facebook has called for the government to break up the company, warning that Mark Zuckerberg's power is "unprecedented and un-American".

Chris Hughes, who helped established Facebook after meeting Zuckerberg at Harvard, wrote in the New York Times that Facebook's acquisition of rival platforms had given Zuckerberg unparalleled power over speech and that, from the early days of Facebook, Zuckerberg had touted "domination" as an ultimate goal.

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