Break up Facebook, says company's co-founder

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes warned that the social network has become a "leviathan" stifling competition in social media and with Mark Zuckerberg enjoying "staggering" influence over the attention of more than two billion people worldwide. [AFP]

One of the co-founders of Facebook called on Thursday for the social media behemoth to be broken up, warning that the company's head, Mark Zuckerberg, had become far too powerful.

"It's time to break up Facebook," said Chris Hughes, who along with Zuckerberg founded the online network in their dorm room while both were students at Harvard University in 2004.