Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up Facebook, calls Zuckerberg's power unprecedented and un-American

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s power “unprecedented and un-American.” In his bombshell opinion piece published in New York Times, Hughes said many things about Zuckerberg and current state of Facebook. Hughes said Zuckerberg has turned Facebook into an invation-suffocating mopoly and Zuckerberg's focus on growth “led him to sacrifice security and civility for s.”

Hughes co-founded Facebook with his Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Andrew McCollum.

In 2007, Hughes left Facebook in 2007 to campaign for Barack Obama. Hughes said he longer has any ownership in Facebook or any or social media company.

“I feel a sense of anger and responsibility,” he wrote, lamenting company’s “slow response to Russian nts, violent rhetoric and fake news.”

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Facebook has been under fire for its never-ending saga of privacy and security blunders and for failing to effectively prevent misinformation and hate speech by extremist groups spreing on platform.

Responding to Hughes’ criticisms, Facebook’s chief spokesman Nick Clegg h this to say:

"You don’t enforce accountability by calling for breakup of a successful American company. Accountability of tech companies can only be achieved through painstaking introduction of new rules for internet. That is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg has called for.”

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Hughes is clearly t alone. In fact, many critics believe Facebook has acquired too much power to continue intact.

Hughes also called for a new federal ncy to regulate tech companies whose “first mandate is to protect privacy.”

Meanwhile, Facebook faces a fine of as much as $5 billion from Federal Tre Commission (FTC) over privacy violations. But critics say amount is a slap on wrist for a company that me $55.8 billion in revenue in 2018.

Hughes says he liquidated his Facebook shares in 2012. He said he does t invest in any social media companies.

Last year, Hughes published a book called 'Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn' vocating a universal basic income.  In 2017, Forbes put his net worth at more than $400 million.

(With ncy inputs)