A Founder of Facebook Says It’s Time to Break It Up

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, has written an Op-Ed in The New York Times saying that Mr. Zuckerberg has become too powerful and that Facebook should be broken up. Our colleague sits down with him to talk about why he’s speaking out. Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology writer for The Times who interviewed Mr. Hughes. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: “It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade,” Mr. Hughes writes in his Op-Ed. “But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.”

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
0:32.8	This is the day.
0:37.8	Today, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg's college rooming, has
0:46.1	written a column in the Times saying Zuckerberg has become too powerful and that Facebook
0:52.4	should be broken up.
0:55.0	My colleague Kevin Rus sits down with Chris Hughes to talk about why he's speaking out.
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