Chris Hughes hasn’t seen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in-person since the summer of 2017, when Hughes, a fellow Facebook co-founder, hung out with Zuck at the latter’s Menlo Park home. For an hour or two, they talked about politics, Facebook and family.
Chris Hughes hasn’t seen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in-person since the summer of 2017, when Hughes, a fellow Facebook co-founder, hung out with Zuck at the latter’s Menlo Park home.
For an hour or two, they talked about politics, Facebook and family. And when it got too late, Hughes bid Zuckerberg farewell and hugged his wife Priscilla goodbye.
Not only has he not seen the chief executive of the big, beleaguered social network since then. But Facebook’s corporate reputation has tanked to an all-new low since that last encounter. Tough new regulation also looks increasingly likely. And on the heels of Zuckerberg announcing a new plan to knit Facebook’s myriad services including Instagram together into a more cohesive whole, Hughes penned an op-ed in the New York Times that makes a forceful plea: It’s time to break this company up, Hughes argues.
