Meet activists who say that they will stop at nothing in their quest to break Facebook

Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook held high panels depicting an image of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as a two-headed octopus. Moments later, the protesters went out.

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Facebook is a coalition of privacy and anti-monopoly groups, born essentially from the Open Markets Institute in May, which has at least nine other g roups among his coalition and last week added his strongest ally: The Communications Workers of America The union, which represents 700,000 American workers.

Sarah Miller, Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute and spokesperson for Freedom from Facebook, said the group was created in the heat of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which began to "lead groups we We had never seen a kind of shared mission. "

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Freedom Facebook has three main goals: separate Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger; force Facebook to interoperate with competing social networks; and the introduction of strict privacy rules to protect Facebook users.

"Mark Zuckerberg has far too much power, his own shareholders have called him a dictator," Miller said. "The set of positions we propose comes down to a more responsible and reasonable status quo."

This is not a flash in the pan question, we are committed to finishing this job, and the health of our democracy depends

More than 10,000 people signed their petition to the Federal Trade Commission, while that Miller is in talks with several other organizations to join the campaign.

They intend to contribute to the FTC's public hearings on competition and consumers. the coming months. This is the first time that the FTC has conducted such a consultation in over 20 years.

Miller would not reveal the freedom to Facebook's backers, believing that anonymity is important when "we're getting back some of the most powerful organizations." She stressed, however, that the coalition is there for the long term.

"This is not a flash in the pan question, we are committed to complete this work, and we feel that the health of our democracy depends on it. It added that the record fine of 5 billion Google's dollars this week for Google on its abuse of Android shows a growing appetite for tackling the dominance of Silicon Valley giants. It's a question of "when and if" Facebook will be faced with scrutiny, said Miller.

So, you can expect to see more protests like this week's Congress, even if it attracted attention for the wrong reasons. that the image of the octopus, with CEO Zuckerberg and COO Sandberg, was anti-Semitic, since similar images were used in Nazi propaganda Both Zuckerberg and Sandberg are Jewish.