File: One of the co-founders of Facebook has called on Thursday for the social media behemoth to be broken up, warning that the company's head, Mark Zuckerberg, had become far too powerful.SAN FRANCISCO - One of the co-founders of Facebook has called on Thursday for the social media behemoth to be broken up, warning that the company's head, Mark Zuckerberg, had become far too powerful.
Zuckerberg not only controls Facebook but also the widely used Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, and Hughes said that"Facebook's board works more like an advisory committee than an overseer." After buying up its main competitors Instagram, where people can publish photos, and WhatsApp, a secure messaging service, Facebook now has 2.7 billion monthly users across its platforms and made a first-quarter profit of $2.43 billion this year.
"The American government needs to do two things: break up Facebook's monopoly and regulate the company to make it more accountable to the American people," Hughes said, urging the government to break away Instagram and WhatsApp and prevent new acquisitions for several years.