Facebook co-founder said to be working with FTC on case against company
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/26/facebook-co-founder-said-to-be-working-with-ftc-on-case-against-company/
Facebook may have agreed to pay $5 billion this week to settle a case with the federal government about how the company has protected its users data, but that doesn’t mean the feds are done with the social-media kingpin.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is reportedly working with federal regulators, and a pair of prominent antitrust academics, to build a case for the government breaking up the company that he started when he and company Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg were students at Harvard University. The New York Times and the Washington Post both reported on Hughes’ involvement in the effort to force Facebook to either split up, or divest itself of properties that have increased the company’s dominance in the social networking industry and given in access to the personal data of billions of individuals around the world.