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No benefit in breaking up Facebook: COO Sandberg
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IANS | 18 May, 2019
As the chorus grows to break up Facebook, the social networking
platform's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has said that it
won't serve any purpose.
"You could break us up, you could break
other tech companies up, but you actually don't address the underlying
issues people are concerned about," she told CNBC in an interview on
Friday.
"People are concerned about election security, content, privacy and data portability," Sandberg added.
Several
US Senators have called for breaking up the social network amid
repeated data breaches and privacy violations on the platform.
Democratic
presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris has stressed that
authorities should take a serious look at breaking up Facebook as the
social network platform is a "utility that has gone unregulated.
Another Democratic 2020 candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren has also stressed upon the possibility of breaking up Facebook.
Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, rejected these calls, saying the size of
the social media giant was actually a benefit to its users and the
security of the democratic process.
Facebook has kept aside $3
billion, anticipating a record fine coming from the US Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) related to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that
involved 87 million users.
In an opinion piece in The New York
Times last week, Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes said the government
must hold Mark (Zuckerberg) accountable.
"Mark's personal
reputation and the reputation of Facebook have taken a nose-dive," wrote
Hughes, adding that it was time to break up the company.
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