<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Should One Platform Have All That Power?
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Chris Hughes, who co-founded the social-media platform with his Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg, called for the government to break up the company in a op-ed. Hughes’s proposal is a gargantuan one in scope, suggesting that the company’s staggering amount of power can be curtailed by splitting off its two biggest subsidiaries, Instagram and WhatsApp. But beyond that, it’s slim on details and might not go
