Facebook needs government intervention to break up its platform
Project Veritas, a conservative organization in the United States, released a sidebar video on the 15th, in which Benny Thomas, the head of Facebook’s Global Planning, told Project Veritas reporters that he believes Facebook has too much power and needs government intervention to break up its platforms. The government needs to step in and split up Facebook’s Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and WhatsApp.
Thomas bluntly said, although the split will make him a lot less money, but he does not care, most people are lack of awareness of Facebook’s excessive power, government intervention is a necessary means to limit the damage caused by Facebook to society, he would like to see the large technology companies to take responsibility and put forward a vision to achieve the goal.
Powerful power is too much for the 36-year-old
Thomas also described Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the first emperor in history to rule over two billion people. Zuckerberg has enough equity to fully control the company, so Facebook’s board of directors can’t decide together whether their CEO stays or goes, like other companies.
Thomas believes that Zuckerberg’s overpowering power makes Facebook not just a business, but an empire, and that such enormous power is too much for Zuckerberg, who is now only thirty-six years old.
Thomas also said that he had participated in the company’s voter registration program, the initial goal of four million people registered, but did not expect the results exceeded expectations, and finally a total of 4.5 million people registered. When reporters asked Thomas if he thought the voter registration program helped Biden win the election, Thomas said he agreed.
Thomas also admitted that Facebook’s algorithm is written by humans, in fact, there has always been a “bias”. Facebook is re-examining the algorithm, the modification is quite complex and Time-consuming, we need to face the courage and quickly modify, but the process will lose a lot of money.
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