Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What would it look like to break up Facebook?
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called on Thursday for Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, to be broken up. In a New York Times op-ed , he wrote that Mark Zuckerberg has too much power over Facebook’s 2 billion users.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFacebook co-founder Chris Hughes called on Thursday for Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, to be broken up. In a New York Times op-ed, he wrote that Mark Zuckerberg has too much power over Facebook’s 2 billion users. Is breaking up the social media giant a realistic plan, and would it tackle anti-trust issues?
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Yael Even Or
Producer, 'Press Play'
Ian Bogost
contributing editor at The Atlantic; Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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