i think that there is less of a degradation than any given vertical because theare less tat you can still, like, i coud still communicate. When i say we split these nthese network, i'm not saying split up the networks themselves. I'm saying, instagram, which has very little relationship with facebook except its own by the same legal entity and move those off from one another. That's what i'm saying. And you're saying, o network effects. But like, that's a different thing. Nio ea, ther network effects withinn no. You're just saying, oh, there's a network effect problem here. There isn't.
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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