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“Their days are numbered”, billionaire investor bashes at Google/Facebook

We all know that the tech giants Google and Facebook are here to stay, at least for decades. But a Hungarian billionaire investor thinks otherwise. Billionaire investor George Soros called Facebook and Google a “menace” and “monopolistic” in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Facebook and Google which have already faced intense scrutiny for promoting Russian propaganda in US elections have again been hit by a scathing attack by Soros, who calls them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to destabilize democracy.

During an annual dinner, Soros host at Swiss alpine resort of Davos, he called the tech companies powerful monopolies that can even compromise on their policies to enter markets like China, where they have been banned a long time ago. According to him,

“Facebook and Google have grown into ever more powerful monopolies, they have become obstacles to innovation, and they have caused a variety of problems of which we are only now beginning to become aware.”

Soros said that these tech giants claim that they are distributing information but they are distributing monopoly instead. Soros said that if they continued to follow these practices, they will soon be ceased. He said,

“Davos is a good place to announce that their days are numbered.”

Facebook, in particular, has come under scrutiny from business leaders as well as former employees as it has struggled to control hate speech and foreign influence on its platform.

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Sajeel Syed

I am a writer at TechJuice, overseeing IT, Telecom, Cryptocurrency, and other tech-related features here. When I'm not working, I spend some of my time with good old Xbox 360 and the rest in social activism. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sajeelshamsi

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