Chris Hughes

Friend portability is the must-have Facebook regulation

Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations. When people can easily move to a competitor, it creates a natural market dynamic coercing a business to act right. When we can’t, oth

Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook ‘isn’t going to help’

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. “W

Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, calls for Facebook to be broken up

The latest call to break up Facebook looks to be the most uncomfortably close to home yet for supreme leader, Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” writes Chr

How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income

As tech has grown, policy debates have become an important pastime. Today’s tech industry aspires to replace human drivers with self-driving cars, secretaries with AI assistants, permanent jobs with

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is fighting for fairer incomes 

According to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, the author of Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn and the co-chair of the Economic Security Project, America needs to radically reform i

Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream”

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Facebook had ‘a negative role’ in politics says co-founder Chris Hughes

"Facebook has played at times a negative role in the political discourse," according to Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate Chris Hughes.

Africa Roundup: Goldman backs startup African Internet Group to become continent’s 1st unicorn

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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Defends His Approach At The New Republic

The New Republic, the political magazine that was <a target="_blank" href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/new-republic-gets-an-owner-steeped-in-new-media/?_r=0">purchased by Facebook

General Assemb.ly Scores $200,000 Grant To School Big Apple Entrepreneurs

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/generalassembly-logo.png" class="shot2"></img> A New York City co-working space called General Assemb.ly has been lending its desks to highly

After Facebook And The Obama Campaign, Chris Hughes Takes a Post At General Catalyst

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/chris-hughes-2-160x200.jpg" width="160" height="200" /> Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who left the social networking company two year