Chris Hughes left Facebook in 2007, but I think his inputs could possibly be valuable. While a lot has changed on the product front in 12 years, the most important question is whether the thinking at the top has changed much in this period. Have Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg demonstrated that their thinking on many matters, including privacy, has changed drastically? I would argue that it hasn't changed much.
It's in the thinking patterns, the decision making patterns (what they would trade off for what) and general strategies where Chris Hughes could possibly provide deeper insight. That in turn would help connect some dots (or where to look for dots) and also find patterns where none seem to exist with raw data available right now. Such repeated patterns would be quite useful and forceful in building a case that these people and the company cannot be trusted to be a good steward by themselves and that external actions are required.
It would be great if they could somehow get the WhatsApp and Instagram founders to provide more information, though I'd presume that these would be prohibited, to some extent, by their contracts and exit agreements.
It's in the thinking patterns, the decision making patterns (what they would trade off for what) and general strategies where Chris Hughes could possibly provide deeper insight. That in turn would help connect some dots (or where to look for dots) and also find patterns where none seem to exist with raw data available right now. Such repeated patterns would be quite useful and forceful in building a case that these people and the company cannot be trusted to be a good steward by themselves and that external actions are required.
It would be great if they could somehow get the WhatsApp and Instagram founders to provide more information, though I'd presume that these would be prohibited, to some extent, by their contracts and exit agreements.