Facebook's co-founder Chris Hughes said last week that he thinks the social media giant is 'dangerous.' But not all former Facebook execs want to see the company broken up.
, Hughes said he came to his position in the wake of the 2016 election, in which Russia used Facebook as a platform to wage a disinformation campaign, and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
But Zuckerberg, who was in France to meet with President Emmanuel Macron, argued that Facebook's size is actually a benefit to users and the security of democracy. "If what you care about is democracy and elections, then you want a company like us to invest billions of dollars a year, like we are, in building up really advanced tools to fight election interference," Zuckerberg said.
"Our budget for safety this year is bigger than the whole revenue of our company was when we went public earlier this decade," he said "A lot of that is because we've been able to build a successful business that can now support that."and politicians both in the U.S. and abroad.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination, laid out a proposal in March to
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