Secretly taped Facebook executive said the company is too powerful and should be broken up by Nihal Krishan,
A senior executive at Facebook was secretly recorded saying that the social media giant harms the world, that it needs to be broken up, and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be removed.
A video released Monday of Benny Thomas, Facebook’s global planning lead, shows him candidly expressing his opinions about his employer to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas, a right-wing activist news outlet founded by James O’Keefe.
“I work for a company that is doing a lot of damage in the world,” Thomas said in the video.
“It’s doing a lot of good, but it’s doing a lot of damage,” he added.
Thomas said that other platforms that Facebook owns, such as Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp, “need to be separate companies” because it’s “too much power when they’re all one together.”
“I would break it up, and I would remove [Mark Zuckerberg] as the CEO,” Thomas said.
In a recent survey of 1500 tech industry employees, 77% said Big Tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google have too much power. Only 8% disagreed.
“The government needs to step in and break up Google and Facebook. I’ll make less money, but it’s a better thing for the world,” Thomas said in the recording.
In another part of the video, Thomas added that “Facebook and Google are no longer companies, they’re countries.”
Project Veritas has secretly recorded and put out multiple videos regarding Facebook’s internal activities, including one in February that showed CEO Zuckerberg justifying banning former President Donald Trump on the platform and claiming that Trump was trying to “undermine” the transition of power.
In the video, Thomas also said he expected “bad things” would occur if Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google “remained unchecked.”
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At the end of the video when the undercover journalist reveals to Thomas that she has been recording their conversations and that she works for Project Veritas, he asked for the secret recordings not to be released.
Facebook did not respond immediately to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
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