---
title: "Facebook Cofounder: Please Break up Facebook"
description: "Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes, who helped turn Facebook into an all-powerful monopoly, met with federal regulators to say Facebook is a too big."
date: "2019-07-26"
modified: "2019-07-26"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-cofounder-break-facebook"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "antitrust"
  - "facebook"
  - "the digest"
---

# Facebook Cofounder: Please Break up Facebook

![Chris Hughes, one of the guys responsible for turning Facebook into an all-powerful monopoly, met with federal regulators to say Facebook is a too big.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/facebook-cofounder-break-facebook.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Shutterstock/Tag Hartman-Simkins\</em\>*

## Second Thoughts

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes recently met with federal regulators to try and kill the monster he created with Mark Zuckerberg.

Hughes, [who also published](<https://futurism.com/co-founder-chris-hughes-facebook-broken-up>) a *New York Times* op-ed on the subject in May, reaffirmed his stance that Facebook has become too big for its own good and that it needs to be broken up, [according to *Ars Technica*](<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/facebook-cofounder-lobbies-hard-to-break-up-company-he-helped-create/>). And having met with Congress, the Justice Department, New York's Attorney General, and the Federal Trade Commission, Hughes is now taking an even more aggressive approach.

## Unholy Vengeance

Hughes formally left Facebook in 2007, but he wrote in his op-ed that he feels responsible for the [impact Facebook has had](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/myanmar-military-facebook-genocide>) on society [and democracy](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/2020-election-hackers>), all without ever being reined in.

He's now working with antitrust experts to solidify his case that Facebook has become a monopoly, *Ars* reports, citing practices such as how the social media giant either buys or copies any potential competitors to maintain its dominance, like how it bought Instagram or mimicked Snapchat's "stories" feature.

Details of Hughes' meetings are scarce, but *[The New York Times ](<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/chris-hughes-facebook-breakup.html>)*[reports](<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/chris-hughes-facebook-breakup.html>) that the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have both recently launched antitrust probes into Facebook, suggesting that more people are paying attention to Facebook's unusual concentration of power.

**READ MORE:** [Please break up Facebook, cofounder asks regulators](<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/facebook-cofounder-lobbies-hard-to-break-up-company-he-helped-create/>) \[*Ars Technica*\]

**More on Chris Hughes:** *[Facebook Co-Founder: “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook”](<https://futurism.com/co-founder-chris-hughes-facebook-broken-up>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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