Google held its big I/O conference for app developers this week, announcing new low-cost phones and a rebranding of Google Home products, but…
Google held its big I/O conference for app developers this week, announcing new low-cost phones and a rebranding of Google Home products, but the search giant didn’t dominate the week’s headlines.
Ride-hailing company Uber went public on Friday and got its share of chatter, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a detailed pitch for flying astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Those stories were big, but the internet blew up this week talking about Facebook, and a co-founder’s thoughtful, heartfelt plea to U. S. regulators to break up the company Chris Hughes and Mark Zuckerberg founded in a Harvard dorm room.
Hughes penned the piece for the New York Times and then did the talk show circuit, appearing on several morning TV shows and NPR.
“Mark is a good, kind person,” wrote Hughes. “But I’m angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks. I’m disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders.
