Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called for the government to make Facebook spin off Instagram and WhatsApp and for the creation of a new agency “empowered by Congress to regulate tech companies.”
The argument for government regulation over Facebook has a new voice, and it comes from one of its co-founders.
Chris Hughes wrote in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on Thursday that the tech giant’s “monopoly” on social media needs to be broken up so the company can be held accountable by the American people.
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