COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 14/05/2019
Mathew Ingram
Journalists like to say that three examples of something makes a trend. In that case, there is definitely something happening around Facebook, as former staffers—and in some cases co-founders—renounce the company and its ill effects on society. The latest is Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate, who helped design and market the service in its very early days, and later went on to run Barack Obama’s digital presence during the 2008 election, among other things. Hughes made headlines last week with a piece in The New York Times arguing that the company should be broken up.