A Founder of Facebook Says Its Time to Break It Up

Published: May 10, 2019, 9:52 a.m.

b'Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg\\u2019s 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\\u2019s speaking out. Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology writer for The Times who interviewed Mr. Hughes. For more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. \\n\\nBackground reading: \\u201cIt\\u2019s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven\\u2019t worked at the company in a decade,\\u201d Mr. Hughes writes in his Op-Ed. \\u201cBut I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.\\u201d'