OPINION_ Break up Facebook? Teddy Roosevelt would cheer

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Break up Facebook? Teddy Roosevelt would cheer

By Matthew Schmitz
May 9, 2019 | 8:19pm



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It’s time to break up Facebook. This is the stunning argument made in a recent op-ed by Chris Hughes, who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and co-founded Facebook.

Hughes argues that Facebook now has too much power over public life. I don’t share his panic about Russian manipulation of social media in the runup to 2016 (did Vladimir Putin prevent Clinton from campaigning in Wisconsin?). Even so, I think Hughes is right. No CEO should be in the business of deciding who gets free speech.

Hughes has added his voice to a growing chorus calling for action against Facebook. Sen. Liz Warren has led the way among Democrats, followed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has begun to revive the trust-busting spirit of Teddy Roosevelt. In September, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a meeting with state attorneys general to discuss whether tech companies were in violation of antitrust law. In November, President Trump said that his administration was “looking into” antitrust violations at Amazon, Google and Facebook.

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