Sinnin: breaking up face books or muchmore sustainable structural reforms to the social media economy itself, are the best solution for competition. The government is not good at implementing rules on a new sector in any coherent and non corrupt way - i can tell you that right now. Sinnan: Chop up the firms into what they used to be -- like there's still people that work on instagram,. Just split them up! That's how it would work. Ain't got no one in Government who wants to implement this kind of regory regime so we'll just have to wait and see. Say none. I want thog tons of issues both of you have flagged that i want to
Whether we call it Facebook or the recently coined Meta, the Silicon Valley tech giant founded by Mark Zuckerberg has rarely been out of the headlines since its inception over a decade ago and rarely have those headlines been good news. From Cambridge Analytica to the United States Capitol attack, the company's utopian ideals of connecting up society seem to often have the opposite effect. However, millions of people use it to lead their daily lives, from staying in touch with each other to building businesses on its networks. Is it time to break up Facebook? To find out, economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh is joined by Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, and Sinan Aral, Professor of Management, IT, Marketing and Data Science at MIT, and author of The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health – and How We Must Adapt.
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