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Re:Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Gov... by opsiprogram on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:31PM (#20529978)
What is the financial interest he has in breaking facebook? How's it related to his failure at The New Republic?
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Re:Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Gov... by lwb on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:53PM (#20530627)
Some of Facebook's primary competitors are traditional news media outlets. Chris Hughes still owns Facebook stock (I think). If Hughes can take down a newspaper, that's one less competitor for Facebook, and his stock goes up.

http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Hughes

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