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Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook “isn’t going to help”

With the look of any individual betrayed, Fb’s CEO has fired once more at co-founder Chris Hughes and his brutal NYT op-ed calling for regulators to separate up Fb, Instagram, and WhatsApp. “Once I be informed what he wrote, my primary reaction used to be as soon as that what he’s proposing that we do isn&#8217…
With the look of someone betrayed, Facebook’s CEO has fired back at co-founder Chris Hughes and his brutal NYT op-ed calling for regulators to split up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. “When I read what he wrote, my main reaction was that what he’s proposing that we do isn’…

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