Project Veritas: Secretly taped Facebook executive said the company is too powerful and should be broken up
[Washington Examiner] 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.