Facebook quickly rejected a call from co-founder Chris Hughes to split the world’s largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the U.S. Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation. “We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” Hughes, a former college roommate of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a lengthy New York Times opinion piece.
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