Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister, is now the social media giant’s head of global affairs. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Facebook break-up calls have been rejected by Nick Clegg

Earlier this week, Chris Hughes, Facebook’s co-founder criticized the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg in a column in the New York Times. Chris called the company to be broken up as well as Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator on the campaign trail.

However, this call has been rejected by the head of Facebook’s global affairs, Nick Clegg. The idea of this giant media to be broken up is picking up cash among contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

According to Clegg on his talk with CNN, Hughes had “quite rightly highlighted…complex issues” affecting Facebook such as “data use, privacy” and election disruption.

Harris was invited to an interview with CNN and were asked whether Facebook was an imposing business model and ought to be broken up. The California senator then moved towards a straight yes. Harris thinks that Facebook has encountered monstrous growth and put its development growth over what is best for its consumer. Particularly on the issue of security and privacy which needs serious regulation, and that has not been going on.

Proceeded whether Facebook should be broken up, Harris stated: “Yes, I think we have to seriously take a look at that, yes.”

Cory Booker, the White House contender told ABC that a president should not be pointing at companies and ask them to break up with no process. And these words may have comforted Clegg in many ways.

Clegg said Facebook is managing some exceptionally significant moral and political issues. “We do also need regulators, politicians, and legislatures to…sort of move beyond the sort phase of just throwing rocks at each other or where politicians throw rocks at tech and tech throw rocks back.” He added.

Clegg also said that it is not an American tradition to begin punishing success. That is not how antitrust law works and used for. And Clegg believes that Facebook is not a monopoly.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/12/facebook-nick-clegg-rejects-calls-to-break-up-company