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Facebook is 'the new cigarettes for our society', says tech CEO

Facebook has created a crisis of trust in the world and needs to be broken up, according to the head of one of the worlds biggest technology companies.

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioffsaid the tech giant urgently needed to be regulated and described it as the new cigarettes for our society.

Mr Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, added to mounting criticism aimed at Facebook in recent years, which ranges from the negative impacts of social media on its usersto the way it allows misinformation to spread online on an unprecedented scale.

In comments made at the World Economic Forum in Davosearlier this year, Mr Benioffdescribed Facebook as addictive, not good for you and warned that theyre after your kids.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment but chief executiveMark Zuckerberg has consistently rejected calls for the company he founded in 2004 to be broken up.

In leaked audio from an internal meeting earlier this year, Mr Zuckerberg claimedhe would sue the government if Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren fulfilled her election promise to break up Big Tech companies.

He said: Look, at the end of the day, if someones going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.

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Author: The Independent

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