Stickers bearing the Facebook logo are pictured at Facebook Inc's F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg's former college roommate Chris Hughes urged US regulators to break up the social media company in a New York Times opinion piece on May 9.
But antitrust law makes such a proposal tough to execute because the government would have to take the company to court and win. It is rare to break up a company but not unheard of, with Standard Oil and AT&T being the two biggest examples.
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