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Elizabeth Warren applauds Facebook cofounder’s call to break up the tech giant into 3 companies

BUSINESS INSIDER – 09/05/2019

Eliza Relman 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is running for president in 2020, has celebrated the Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes’ call to break up Facebook two months after she rolled out her own plan to break up the largest US tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
“Chris Hughes is right,” Warren tweeted on Thursday morning. “Today’s big 

Breaking Up Facebook Isn’t Enough

THE ATLANTIC – 09/05/2019

The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
In an explosive opinion piece published today in The New York Times, Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate, called for the government to break up the social-media company. “I haven’t worked at the company in a decade,” Hughes wrote, “But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.”

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Thinks the Company Should Be Broken Up

NEW YORK MAGAZINE – 09/05/2019

Brian Feldman

Many people have argued that Facebook’s concentrated power is dangerous to society at large. Many people have argued that Mark Zuckerberg’s concentrated power within Facebook’s corporate structure reinforces and exacerbates those dangers. In response to growing concerns about Facebook, many people have argued that the company should be broken up by the government, an enforcement of antitrust law already on the books.
 

Avoiding the AI weapons race

AXIOS – 08/05/2019

Kaveh Waddell

Today’s great powers are sliding toward a new arms race, this time on the battleground of lethal computer code, but experts say that rushing to develop autonomous weapons — which can be erratic and easily stolen — will make violent conflict more likely and yield no winners.