Co-Founder of Facebook <br />Now Wants It Broken Up In an op-ed for 'The New York Times,' Chris Hughes says regulations are needed for U.S. tech companies. Hughes, who left the company a decade ago, helped originally start it with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the op-ed, he writes that Zuckerberg has surrounded himself with those <br />who don't challenge him enough. Chris Hughes, via <br />'The New York Times' Hughes even writes that Facebook should give up control of Instagram due its "monopoly-like" status. Chris Hughes, via 'The New York Times' In his own op-ed earlier this year, Zuckerberg signaled that regulations <br />may be needed. But Hughes says those views are <br />only meant for Facebook to avoid <br />possible antitrust cases in the future.