By: Jefferson Graham
May 13, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg’s former college roommate and co-founder of Facebook posted a fascinating proposal this week: break up the social network and watch the problems start to disappear.
But would they? Take Instagram and WhatsApp away from Facebook, Inc. and say goodbye to Russian trolls, fake news, privacy invasions and an algorithm that shows what Facebook wants you to see?
Much of the online chatter can be summed up in two words: nice dream.
“It would not solve the problem,” says Boston based blogger Josh Bernoff. “Breaking up Facebook would enable us to have 3 data abusers (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) instead of one, and I’m not sure why that’s better.”