Mark Zuckerberg

{{infobox person

| name = Mark Zuckerberg

| image = Mark Zuckerberg F8 2019 Keynote (32830578717) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Zuckerberg in 2019

| birth_name = Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|05|14}}

| nickname = Zuck

| birth_place = White Plains, New York, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Businessman|computer programmer}}

| title = {{indented plainlist|

Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms and Facebook
Co-founder and co-CEO of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative}}

| education = Harvard University (dropped out)

| years_active = 2004–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Priscilla Chan|2012}}

| children = 3

| relatives = {{plain list|

Randi Zuckerberg (sister)
Donna Zuckerberg (sister)

}}

| website = {{URL|facebook.com/zuck}}

| signature = Mark Zuckerberg Signature.svg

}}

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ʌ|k|ər|b|ɜr|g}}; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues such as user privacy.

Zuckerberg briefly attended Harvard College, where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. He became the world's youngest self-made billionaire{{efn|Kylie Jenner was thought to be the youngest until it was reported that she had allegedly forged documents to make her appear to be a billionaire.{{Cite web|title=Inside Kylie Jenner's Web Of Lies—And Why She's No Longer A Billionaire|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2020/05/29/inside-kylie-jennerss-web-of-lies-and-why-shes-no-longer-a-billionaire/#791af1b625f7|last1=Peterson-Withorn|first1=Chase|last2=Berg|first2=Madeline|date=May 29, 2020|website=Forbes|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=May 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529134308/https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2020/05/29/inside-kylie-jennerss-web-of-lies-and-why-shes-no-longer-a-billionaire/#791af1b625f7|url-status=live}}}} in 2008, at age 23, and has consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest individuals. According to Forbes, as of March 2025, Zuckerberg's estimated net worth stood at US$214.1 billion, making him the second richest individual in the world,{{Cite magazine|title=Mark Zuckerberg|url=https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ |magazine=Forbes|access-date=February 17, 2025}} behind Elon Musk and before Jeff Bezos.

Zuckerberg has used his funds to organize multiple large donations, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. A film depicting Zuckerberg's early career, legal troubles and initial success with Facebook, The Social Network, was released in 2010 and won multiple Academy Awards. His prominence and fast rise in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention.

Early life

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, to psychiatrist Karen ({{nee|Kempner}}) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.{{cite news|last=Burrell|first=Ian|date=July 24, 2010|title=Mark Zuckerberg: He's got the whole world on his site|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mark-zuckerberg-he-s-got-the-whole-world-on-his-site-2034134.html|newspaper=The Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028103534/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mark-zuckerberg-he-s-got-the-whole-world-on-his-site-2034134.html|archive-date=October 28, 2023|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|last=Shaer|first=Matthew|title=The Zuckerbergs of Dobbs Ferry|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/zuckerberg-family-2012-5/index1.html|magazine=New York|date=May 4, 2012 |issue=May 14, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012|archive-date=May 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510060755/http://nymag.com/news/features/zuckerberg-family-2012-5/index1.html|url-status=live}} He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zuckerbergs-curated-jewish-conscience-is-shallow-and-evasive-1.5455322|newspaper=Haaretz|title=Mark Zuckerberg's carefully curated Jewish conscience is both shallow and evasive|first=Anshel|last=Pfeffer|date=October 4, 2017|access-date=May 12, 2018|archive-date=May 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512113816/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zuckerbergs-curated-jewish-conscience-is-shallow-and-evasive-1.5455322|url-status=live}} in Dobbs Ferry, New York.{{cite magazine|access-date=September 22, 2010|url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas|title=The Face of Facebook|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 20, 2010|author=Vargas, Jose Antonio|archive-date=September 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918081147/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas|url-status=live}} Their great-grandparents were emigrants from Austria, Germany, and Poland.{{cite web|last=Zuckerberg|first=Mark|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103460278231481 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/4/10103460278231481 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |url-access=limited|title=My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria, and Poland.|publisher=Facebook|date=January 27, 2017}}{{cbignore}} Zuckerberg initially attended Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. He was captain of the fencing team.{{cite book |title=The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World |last=Kirkpatrick |first=David |year=2010 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4391-0211-4 |pages=20–21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RRUkLhyGZVgC&pg=PA20 |access-date=November 9, 2010 |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112180905/http://books.google.com/books?id=RRUkLhyGZVgC&pg=PA20 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Grynbaum |first=Michael M. |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/6/10/mark-e-zuckerberg-06-the-whiz |title=Mark E. Zuckerberg '06: The whiz behind thefacebook.com |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |date=June 10, 2004 |access-date=August 30, 2010 |archive-date=September 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929161740/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/6/10/mark-e-zuckerberg-06-the-whiz/ |url-status=live }}

= Software development =

== Early years ==

Zuckerberg learned computer programming in his childhood. At about the age of eleven, he created "ZuckNet", a program that allowed computers at the family home and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.{{cite web |last= Wagner |first= Kurk |date=May 24, 2017 |title=Before Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built a chat network called ZuckNet |url= https://www.vox.com/2017/5/23/15683074/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-chat-network-aol-zucknet |access-date=October 13, 2024 }} During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot{{cite web |author=Hemos/Dan Moore |date=April 21, 2003 |title=Machine Learning and MP3s |url=http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/21/110236.shtml |access-date=September 3, 2010 |work=Slashdot |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210164555/https://slashdot.org/story/03/04/21/110236/machine-learning-and-mp3s |url-status=live }} and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.{{cite magazine |last=Dreier |first=Troy |date=February 8, 2005 |title=Synapse Media Player Review |magazine=PC Magazine |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1748374,00.asp |url-status=live |access-date=September 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916050335/http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1748374,00.asp |archive-date=September 16, 2010}} The New Yorker once said of Zuckerberg, "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." While still in high school, he attended Mercy College taking a graduate computer course on Thursday evenings.

== College years ==

The New Yorker noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard in 2002, he had already achieved a "reputation as a programming prodigy". He studied psychology and computer science,{{cite web |last=Larson |first=Chase |title=Mark Zuckerberg speaks at BYU, calls Facebook 'as much psychology and sociology as it is technology' |date=March 25, 2011 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2011/3/25/20181280/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-at-byu-calls-facebook-as-much-psychology-and-sociology-as-it-is-technology/ |work=Deseret News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322055157/https://www.deseret.com/2011/3/25/20181280/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-at-byu-calls-facebook-as-much-psychology-and-sociology-as-it-is-technology/ |access-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |url-status=live}} resided in Kirkland House,{{cite magazine |last=Madrigal |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Madrigal |title=Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/and-then-there-was-thefacebookcom/582004/ |magazine=The Atlantic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312202231/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/and-then-there-was-thefacebookcom/582004/ |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |url-status=live |access-date=March 22, 2024}} and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi. In his second year, he wrote a program that he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and help them form study groups.{{Cite news|last=Carson |first=Biz |title=This is the true story of how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and it wasn't to find girls|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-true-story-of-how-mark-zuckerberg-founded-facebook-2016-2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501222406/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-true-story-of-how-mark-zuckerberg-founded-facebook-2016-2|archive-date=May 1, 2024|access-date=May 1, 2024 |work=Business Insider|url-status=live}} Later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best-looking person from a choice of photos. Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, explained:

We had books called "Face Books", which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures, or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be a ranking.{{cite web |last=Grimland |first=Guy |date=October 5, 2009 |title=Facebook founder's roommate recounts creation of Internet giant |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/facebook-founder-s-roommate-recounts-creation-of-internet-giant-1.275748 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022153118/http://www.haaretz.com/news/facebook-founder-s-roommate-recounts-creation-of-internet-giant-1.275748 |archive-date=October 22, 2010 |access-date=December 14, 2010 |work=Haaretz}}

The site went up over a weekend, but by Monday morning, the college shut it down, because its popularity had overwhelmed one of Harvard's network switches, preventing students from accessing the Internet.{{Cite encyclopedia |date=May 20, 2024 |title=Britannica Money |url=https://www.britannica.com/money/Facebook |access-date=May 22, 2024 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523003337/https://www.britannica.com/money/Facebook |url-status=live }} In addition, many students complained that their photos were being used without permission. Zuckerberg apologized publicly, and the student paper ran articles stating that his site was "completely improper".

Career

= Facebook =

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In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website.{{Cite magazine |last=Hoffman |first=Claire |date=June 28, 2008 |title=The Battle for Facebook |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |url-status=dead |magazine=Rolling Stone |location=New York City |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703220456/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |archive-date=July 3, 2008 |access-date=February 5, 2009}} On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com, in partnership with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.{{Cite news |author=Seward, Zachary M. |date=July 25, 2007 |title=Judge Expresses Skepticism About Facebook Lawsuit |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118539991204578084 |url-status=live |access-date=April 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055244/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118539991204578084.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |archive-date=September 21, 2013}}{{cite web |last=Antonas |first=Steffan |date=May 10, 2009 |title=Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard? |url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201185222/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php |archive-date=February 1, 2012 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |work=ReadWrite Social |publisher=SAY Media, Inc}} An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", which students referred to as "The Facebook". Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers.

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Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, when he was using their ideas to build a competing product.{{Cite news |last=Carlson |first=Nicolas |date=March 5, 2010 |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account |website=Business Insider |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |url-status=live |access-date=March 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508193810/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |archive-date=May 8, 2019}} The three complained to The Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation in response. While Zuckerberg tried to convince the editors not to run the story,{{cite news |last=Kaplan |first=Katherine A. |date=November 19, 2003 |title=Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504172812/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/ |archive-date=May 4, 2019 |access-date=December 26, 2021 |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson}} he also broke into two of the editors' email accounts—for which he made use of their private login data logs from TheFacebook.{{Cite web |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke into a Facebook User's Private Email Account |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508193810/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |archive-date=May 8, 2019 |access-date=October 31, 2021 |website=Business Insider}}{{Cite magazine |date=March 5, 2010 |title=The Duplicitous Deeds of Mark Zuckerberg |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/03/the-duplicitous-deeds-of-mark-zuckerberg/346445/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031033306/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/03/the-duplicitous-deeds-of-mark-zuckerberg/346445/ |archive-date=October 31, 2021 |access-date=October 31, 2021 |magazine=The Atlantic}}

Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.{{Cite news |author=Stone, Brad |date=June 28, 2008 |title=Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU |newspaper=The New York Times blog |url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/judge-ends-facebooks-feud-with-connectu/index.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708024258/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/judge-ends-facebooks-feud-with-connectu/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |access-date=July 26, 2010 }} The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares and $20 million in cash.{{cite news |last=Rushe |first=Dominic |date=February 2, 2012 |title=Facebook IPO sees Winklevoss twins heading for $300m fortune |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226015310/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune+ |url-status=live }}

Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until he decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate and co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.{{cite news |last=Carlson |first=Nicholas |date=March 5, 2010 |title=At Last – The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded |work=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 |url-status=live |access-date=December 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329085331/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 |archive-date=March 29, 2020}} They began with Columbia University, New York University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Yale University.* {{cite news |last=Holt |first=Chris |date=March 10, 2004 |title=Thefacebook.com's darker side |newspaper=The Stanford Daily |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614061858/http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side/ |archive-date=June 14, 2010}}

{{cite web |last=Nguyen |first=Lananh |date=April 12, 2004 |title=Online network created by Harvard students flourishes |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/2.5541/1.600318 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6KOZTvFwU?url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/11/facebook-opens-up-cx_rr_0911facebook.html |archive-date=October 15, 2013 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |work=The Tufts Daily |publisher=College Media Network}}
{{cite web |last=Rotberg |first=Emily |date=April 14, 2004 |title=Thefacebook.com opens to Duke students |url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2004/04/14/thefacebookcom-opens-duke-students |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911045929/http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2004/04/14/thefacebookcom-opens-duke-students |archive-date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |work=The Chronicle |publisher=Duke Student Publishing Company}}
{{cite web |title=Students flock to join college online facebook |url=http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/node/41990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825022008/http://thedp.com/node/41990 |archive-date=August 25, 2011 |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian}}

Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete the project.{{cite news |last=Klepper |first=David |date=November 9, 2011 |title=Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout, returns to open arms |newspaper=Christian Science Monitor |publisher=Christian Science Publishing Society |location=Boston, Massachusetts |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1109/Mark-Zuckerberg-Harvard-dropout-returns-to-open-arms |url-status=live |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511100408/http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1109/Mark-Zuckerberg-Harvard-dropout-returns-to-open-arms |archive-date=May 11, 2013}} Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and the other co-founders moved to Palo Alto, California, where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, who invested in his company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard, but eventually decided to remain in California, where Zuckerberg appreciated the "mythical place" of Silicon Valley, the center of computer technology in California.{{cite web |title=Zuckerberg To Leave Harvard Indefinitely |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |publisher=The Harvard Crimson, Inc |access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Sam |last=Teller |date=November 1, 2005 |archive-date=March 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327053102/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Business, Casual. |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/24/business-casual-a-year-ago-mark/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |publisher=The Harvard Crimson, Inc |access-date=March 26, 2013 |author=Kevin J. Feeney |date=February 24, 2005 |archive-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305005010/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/24/business-casual-a-year-ago-mark/ |url-status=live }} They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."{{cite web |date=January 24, 2007 |title=Face-to-Face with Mark Zuckerberg '02 |url=http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_5594.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202181919/http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_5594.aspx |archive-date=February 2, 2012 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |publisher=Phillips Exeter Academy }} The same year, speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School course at Stanford University, Zuckerberg made a controversial assertion that "young people are just smarter" and that other entrepreneurs should bias towards hiring young people.{{Cite news |url=https://venturebeat.com/2007/03/26/start-up-advice-for-entrepreneurs-from-y-combinator-startup-school/ |title=Startup advice for entrepreneurs from Y Combinator |date=March 26, 2007 |archive-date=June 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170625051849/https://venturebeat.com/2007/03/26/start-up-advice-for-entrepreneurs-from-y-combinator-startup-school/ |publisher=Venture Beat |first1=Mark |last1=Coker}}

Zuckerberg restated these goals to Wired magazine in 2010, "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."{{cite magazine |last=Singel |first=Ryan |date=May 28, 2010 |title=Epicenter: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901012049/http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview |archive-date=September 1, 2010}} Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg had sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie regarding financing strategies for Facebook.{{cite news |title=Yu, Zuckerberg and the Facebook fallout |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403222221/http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 3, 2009|access-date=March 26, 2013 |publisher=Reuters |date=April 1, 2009 |first=Robert |last=MacMillan |quote=In a back-to-the-future move, former Netscape CFO Peter Currie will be the key adviser to Facebook about financial matters, until a new search for a CFO is found, sources said.}} On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that Facebook had reached the 500-million-user mark.{{citation |title=500 Million Stories |first=Mark |last=Zuckerberg |url=https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130 |publisher=The Facebook Blog |date=July 22, 2010 |access-date=May 21, 2012 |archive-date=May 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520200921/http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130 |url-status=live }} When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:

I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That's the simplest thing we could do. But we aren't like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.

In 2010, Steven Levy, who wrote the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker". Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better".{{cite news |access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=https://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers/all/1 |title=Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists |magazine=Wired |date=April 19, 2010 |author=Levy, Steven |archive-date=September 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922031103/http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers/all/1 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |access-date=September 24, 2010 |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/profile/facebook |title=The World's Most Innovative Companies 2010 |work=Fast Company |date=February 17, 2010 |author=McGirt, Ellen |archive-date=July 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720061436/http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/profile/facebook |url-status=live }} Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project. The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended. "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my personality."

In 2007, Zuckerberg was added to MIT Technology Review's TR35 list as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=635 |title=2007 Young Innovators Under 35: Mark Zuckerberg, 23 |magazine=MIT Technology Review |year=2007 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903141534/http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=635 |url-status=live }} Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".{{cite magazine |access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=1 |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=October 2010 |archive-date=September 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925061001/http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=1 |url-status=live }} Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009.{{cite magazine |access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/new-establishment200910?currentPage=all |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=September 1, 2010 |archive-date=August 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828042114/http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/new-establishment200910?currentPage=all |url-status=live }} In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman{{'}}s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.{{cite web |title=Mark Zuckerberg – 50 People who matter 2010 |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2010/09/zuckerberg-faceman-site-world |work=New Statesman |location=UK |access-date=September 27, 2010 |archive-date=September 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930152129/http://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2010/09/zuckerberg-faceman-site-world |url-status=live }}

In a 2011 interview with PBS shortly after the death of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg said that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that was "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are".{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-07/facebook-s-zuckerberg-says-steve-jobs-advised-on-company-focus-management.html |title=Facebook's Zuckerberg says Steve Jobs advised on company focus, management |publisher=Bloomberg News |date=November 7, 2011 |access-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-date=November 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110002401/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-07/facebook-s-zuckerberg-says-steve-jobs-advised-on-company-focus-management.html |url-status=live}}

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On October 1, 2012, Zuckerberg met with then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook's position in the Russian market.{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Andrew E. |date=October 1, 2012 |title=Zuckerberg Meets With Medvedev in a Crucial Market |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/technology/zuckerberg-meets-with-medvedev-in-key-market.html |access-date=April 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404084719/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/technology/zuckerberg-meets-with-medvedev-in-key-market.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Elder |first=Miriam |date=October 1, 2012 |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg meets excited Russian prime minister |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/01/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-russia-prime-minister |access-date=April 4, 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403193404/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/01/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-russia-prime-minister |url-status=live }} Russia's communications minister tweeted that Medvedev persuaded Zuckerberg to open a research center in Moscow instead of trying to lure away Russian programmers. In 2012, Facebook had roughly 9 million users in Russia, while domestic clone VK had around 34 million.{{cite news |title=Russia pushes Facebook to open research center |url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |publisher=Fox News |date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=October 2, 2012 |archive-date=December 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209072834/http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/01/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |title=Russia pushes Facebook to open research center |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=April 4, 2023 |agency=CBS News |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404033319/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |url-status=live }} Rebecca Van Dyck, Facebook's head of consumer marketing, said that 85 million American Facebook users were exposed to the first day of the Home promotional campaign on April 6, 2013.{{cite magazine |title=Facebook Practices What It Preaches for 'Home' Ad Blitz |url=http://adage.com/article/special-report-digital-conference/rebecca-van-dyck-facebook-ads-home-ad-campaign/240922/ |magazine=Ad Age|access-date=April 18, 2013 |first=Cotton |last=Delo |date=April 16, 2013 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202651/http://adage.com/article/special-report-digital-conference/rebecca-van-dyck-facebook-ads-home-ad-campaign/240922/ |url-status=live}}

On August 19, 2013, The Washington Post reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer.{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/ |access-date=August 19, 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 19, 2013 |author=Caitlin Dewey |archive-date=August 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819155641/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/ |url-status=live}}

At the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, held in September, Zuckerberg stated that he was working towards registering the 5 billion people who were not connected to the Internet as of the conference on Facebook. Zuckerberg then explained that this is intertwined with the aim of the Internet.org project, whereby Facebook, with the support of other technology companies, seeks to increase the number of people connected to the internet.{{cite web |title=6 Things We Learned From Marissa Mayer and Mark Zuckerberg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 |url=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2296067/6-Things-We-Learned-From-Marissa-Mayer-and-Mark-Zuckerberg-at-TechCrunch-Disrupt-2013 |work=TechCrunch |publisher=AOL Inc |access-date=September 23, 2013 |first=Victoria |last=Edwards |date=September 21, 2013 |archive-date=September 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924084501/http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2296067/6-Things-We-Learned-From-Marissa-Mayer-and-Mark-Zuckerberg-at-TechCrunch-Disrupt-2013 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Mark Zuckerberg Creates Tech Justice League to Bring Internet to the Masses |url=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2290350/Mark-Zuckerberg-Creates-Tech-Justice-League-to-Bring-Internet-to-the-Masses |work=Search Engine Watch |publisher=Incisive Media Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC |access-date=September 23, 2013 |first=Alastair |last=Stevenson |date=August 22, 2013 |archive-date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928001450/http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2290350/Mark-Zuckerberg-Creates-Tech-Justice-League-to-Bring-Internet-to-the-Masses |url-status=live}}

Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 delegates. Various media sources highlighted the connection between Facebook's focus on mobile technology and Zuckerberg's speech, stating that mobile represents the future of the company.* {{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg goes to Barcelona to make mobile friends |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/23/zuckerberg-facebook-barcelona-mobile-world-congress?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 |access-date=February 24, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 23, 2014 |author=Samuel Gibbs |archive-date=March 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302200037/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/23/zuckerberg-facebook-barcelona-mobile-world-congress?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 |url-status=live}}

{{cite news |title=Facebook's Zuckerberg to Speak at Mobile World Congress |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/16/facebooks-zuckerberg-to-speak-at-mobile-world-congress/ |access-date=February 24, 2014 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=January 16, 2014 |author=Sven Grundberg |archive-date=February 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218234325/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/16/facebooks-zuckerberg-to-speak-at-mobile-world-congress/ |url-status=live}}
{{cite web |title=Facebook's Zuckerberg to headline Mobile World Congress this year |url=http://gigaom.com/2014/01/16/facebooks-zuckerberg-to-headline-mobile-world-congress-this-year/ |work=Gigaom |publisher=Gigaom, Inc |access-date=February 24, 2014 |first=David |last=Meyer |date=January 16, 2014 |archive-date=February 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227230259/http://gigaom.com/2014/01/16/facebooks-zuckerberg-to-headline-mobile-world-congress-this-year/ |url-status=live}} Zuckerberg's speech expands upon the goal that he raised at the TechCrunch conference in September 2013, whereby he is working towards expanding Internet coverage into developing countries.{{cite news |title=Mobile World Congress: What to expect from Barcelona |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26291674 |access-date=February 24, 2014 |publisher=BBC News |date=February 22, 2014 |author=Mark Gregory |archive-date=February 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223234552/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26291674 |url-status=live}}

Alongside other American technology figures such as Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician Lu Wei, known as the "Internet czar" for his influence in the enforcement of China's online policy, at Facebook's headquarters on December 8, 2014. The meeting occurred after Zuckerberg participated in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2014, where he conversed in Mandarin Chinese; although Facebook is banned in China, Zuckerberg is highly regarded among the people and was at the university to help fuel the nation's burgeoning entrepreneur sector.{{cite news |author1=Alex Hern, Jonathan Kaiman |title=Mark Zuckerberg addresses Chinese university in Mandarin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/mark-zuckerberg-chinese-university-fluent-mandarin-video |access-date=December 14, 2014 |work=The Guardian |date=October 23, 2014 |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213093153/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/mark-zuckerberg-chinese-university-fluent-mandarin-video |url-status=live}}

Zuckerberg fielded questions during a live Q&A session at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park on December 11, 2014. The founder and CEO explained that he does not believe Facebook is a waste of time, because it facilitates social engagement, and participating in a public session was so that he could "learn how to better serve the community".{{cite news |author1=Maria Tadeo |title=Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: What we learnt about the Facebook founder |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/mark-zuckerberg-qa-what-we-learnt-about-the-facebook-founder-9921582.html |access-date=December 14, 2014 |work=The Independent |date=December 12, 2014 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221074735/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/mark-zuckerberg-qa-what-we-learnt-about-the-facebook-founder-9921582.html |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |author1=Sam Colt |title=Facebook May Be Adding a 'Dislike' Button |url=http://www.inc.com/business-insider/Facebook-may-be-adding-a-dislike-button.html?cid=em01011week50day12d |magazine=Inc. |publisher=Monsueto Ventures |access-date=December 14, 2014 |date=December 12, 2014 |archive-date=March 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320064745/http://www.inc.com/business-insider/Facebook-may-be-adding-a-dislike-button.html?cid=em01011week50day12d |url-status=live}}

Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as CEO of Facebook.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312513178090/d493645ddef14a.htm |title=Facebook, Inc. Proxy Statement |date=April 26, 2013 |access-date=March 30, 2014 |publisher=United States Security and Exchange Commission |quote=On January 1, 2013, Mr. Zuckerberg's annual base salary was reduced to $1 and he will no longer receive annual bonus compensation under our Bonus Plan. |page=31 |archive-date=June 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623151822/http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312513178090/d493645ddef14a.htm |url-status=live}} In June 2016, Business Insider named Zuckerberg one of the "Top 10 Business Visionaries Creating Value for the World" along with Elon Musk and Sal Khan, due to the fact that he and his wife "pledged to give away 99% of their wealth-then estimated at $55.0 billion".{{cite web |title=The top 10 business visionaries creating value for the world |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/top-ten-business-visionaries-creating-value-for-the-world-2016-6 |website=Business Insider |access-date=January 30, 2017 |archive-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911142101/http://www.businessinsider.com/top-ten-business-visionaries-creating-value-for-the-world-2016-6 |url-status=live}}

On May 25, 2017, at Harvard's 366th commencement day, Zuckerberg, after giving a commencement speech,{{Cite news |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Zuckerberg finally gets Harvard degree |agency=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40053163 |url-status=live |access-date=May 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530205709/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40053163 |archive-date=May 30, 2020}} received an honorary degree from Harvard.{{cite news |last1=Steinbock |first1=Anna |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees |work=Harvard Gazette |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-awards-10-honorary-degrees-at-366th-commencement/ |url-status=live |access-date=May 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525124711/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-awards-10-honorary-degrees-at-366th-commencement/ |archive-date=May 25, 2017}}{{cite news |last=Ojalvo |first=Holly Epstein |title=Mark Zuckerberg finally got his Harvard degree |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2017/05/25/mark-zuckerberg-finally-got-his-harvard-degree/37432061/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503124926/https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2017/05/25/mark-zuckerberg-finally-got-his-harvard-degree/37432061/ |archive-date=May 3, 2020 |access-date=May 3, 2020 |newspaper=USA Today}}

In January 2019, Zuckerberg laid plans to integrate an end-to-end encrypted system for three major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197228/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-merge-messaging-services-mark-zuckerberg|title=Facebook plans to let Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users message each other|access-date=January 25, 2019|website=The Verge|date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=January 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125230854/https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197228/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-merge-messaging-services-mark-zuckerberg|url-status=live}} On August 14, 2020, Facebook integrated the chat systems for Instagram and Messenger on both iOS and Android devices. The update encouraged cross-communication between Instagram and Facebook users.{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21369737/facebook-merging-instagram-messenger-chats-update|title=Facebook begins merging Instagram and Messenger chats in new update|access-date=August 14, 2020|website=The Verge|date=August 14, 2020|archive-date=January 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117235754/https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21369737/facebook-merging-instagram-messenger-chats-update|url-status=live}}

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A month after Zuckerberg launched Facebook in February 2004, i2hub, another campus-only service, created by Wayne Chang and focusing on peer-to-peer file sharing, was launched. At the time, both i2hub and Facebook were gaining the attention of the press and growing rapidly in users and publicity. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog, a precursor to Facebook Platform applications, which was launched in 2007.{{Cite news |publisher=Martey Dodoo |url=http://www.marteydodoo.com/2004/08/16/wirehog/ |date=August 16, 2004 |title=Wirehog? |author=Martey Dodoo |access-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042158/http://www.marteydodoo.com/2004/08/16/wirehog/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |work=Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/8/13/zuckerberg-programs-new-website-having-seemingly/ |date=August 13, 2004 |title=Zuckerberg Programs New Website |author=Alan J. Tabak |access-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823043910/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/8/13/zuckerberg-programs-new-website-having-seemingly/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |title=80000 developers |access-date=April 21, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324022748/http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |archive-date=March 24, 2017 }}

In 2013, Zuckerberg launched Internet.org, which he described as an initiative to provide Internet access to the five billion people without it as of the launch date. The project faced significant opposition in India, where activists said its limited internet ran counter to the principle of net neutrality; Zuckerberg responded by saying that a limited internet was better than no internet. Internet.org was shut down in India in February 2016, although Zuckerberg later met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss further possibilities.{{cite web |author=Jessi Hempel |url=https://www.wired.com/story/what-happened-to-facebooks-grand-plan-to-wire-the-world/ |title=What Happened to Internet.org, Facebook's Grand Plan to Wire the World? |work=wired.com |date=May 17, 2018 |access-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301005856/https://www.wired.com/story/what-happened-to-facebooks-grand-plan-to-wire-the-world/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Meet at the Silicon Valley among the tech leaders and Indian Prime Minister-Narendra Modi |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/at-facebook-we-also-believe-in-net-neutrality-very-strongly-mark-zuckerberg/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004090103/http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/at-facebook-we-also-believe-in-net-neutrality-very-strongly-mark-zuckerberg/ |archive-date=October 4, 2015 |access-date=October 9, 2015}}

Zuckerberg is a board member of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot, which he co-founded with Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking in 2016.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-joins-100-million-initiative-send-tiny-space-probes-explore-447513|title=Mark Zuckerberg just joined a new project to explore the universe faster|first=Seung|last=Lee|date=April 13, 2016|magazine=Newsweek|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022151521/https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-joins-100-million-initiative-send-tiny-space-probes-explore-447513|url-status=live}}

Legal trouble

= ConnectU lawsuits =

Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU). They filed a lawsuit in 2004; it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in a federal court in Boston. Facebook countersued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by The Winklevoss Chang Group, an alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub. On June 25, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $20 million in cash.{{Cite news |author=Logged in as click here to log out |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/feb/12/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ex-classmates |title=Facebook paid up to $65m to founder Mark Zuckerberg's ex-classmates |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=February 12, 2009 |access-date=August 21, 2009 |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216185121/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/feb/12/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ex-classmates |url-status=live }}

In November 2007, confidential court documents were posted on the website of 02138, a magazine that catered to Harvard alumni. They included Zuckerberg's Social Security number, his parents' home address, and his girlfriend's address. Although Facebook filed to have the documents removed, the judge ruled in favor of 02138.{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Caroline |url=http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827222-36.html?tag=cd.blog |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120915032928/http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827222-36.html?tag=cd.blog |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 15, 2012 |title=article about 02138 |publisher=News.com |date=November 30, 2007 |access-date=June 26, 2010 }}

= Eduardo Saverin =

In 2005, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and Facebook, alleging that Zuckerberg had illegally spent Saverin's money on personal expenses. The lawsuit was settled out of court and, although terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook, and Saverin agreed to stop talking to the press.{{Cite web |last=Carlson |first=Nicholas |date=May 15, 2012 |title=EXCLUSIVE: How Mark Zuckerberg booted his co-founder out of the company |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-booted-his-co-founder-out-of-the-company-2012-5 |access-date=September 25, 2022 |website=Business Insider |archive-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901075318/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-booted-his-co-founder-out-of-the-company-2012-5 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Hempel |first=Jessi |date=July 25, 2009 |title=The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read |publisher=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |url-status=dead |access-date=May 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914024405/http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |archive-date=September 14, 2010}}

= Pakistan criminal investigation =

In June 2010, then Pakistani Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes after a "Draw Muhammad" contest was hosted on Facebook. The investigation also named the anonymous German woman who created the contest. Sidiqque asked the country's police to contact Interpol to have Zuckerberg and the three others arrested for blasphemy. On May 19, 2010, Facebook's website was temporarily blocked in Pakistan until Facebook removed the contest from its website at the end of May. Sidiqque also asked its UN representative to raise the issue with the United Nations General Assembly.{{cite web|last=West|first=Jackson |url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Facebook-CEO-Named-in-Pakiistan-Criminal-Investigation.html |title=Facebook CEO Named in Pakistan Criminal Investigation |date=June 18, 2010 |publisher=NBC Bay Area |access-date=June 26, 2010 |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621144712/http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Facebook-CEO-Named-in-Pakiistan-Criminal-Investigation.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan/|title=Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg|website=The Register|access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=November 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109030812/https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan/|url-status=live}}

= Paul Ceglia =

In June 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood pellet fuel company in Allegany County, upstate New York, filed suit against Zuckerberg, claiming 84 percent ownership of Facebook and seeking monetary damages. According to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg signed a contract on April 28, 2003, that an initial fee of $1,000 entitled Ceglia to 50% of the website's revenue, as well as an additional 1% interest in the business per day after January 1, 2004, until website completion. Zuckerberg was developing other projects at the time, among which was Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, but did not register the domain name thefacebook.com until January 1, 2004. The Facebook management dismissed the lawsuit as "completely frivolous". Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told a reporter that Ceglia's counsel had unsuccessfully sought an out-of-court settlement.{{cite web |url=http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/article/20100729/NEWS/307299940 |title=Facebook does not have a like button for Ceglia |author=Anderson, John |work=The Wellsville Daily Reporter |publisher=WellsvilleDaily.com |date=July 29, 2010 |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=March 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330113101/http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/article/20100729/News/307299940 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2010/07/20/zuckerberg-ceglia|title=Venture beat coverage of Ceglia lawsuit|date=July 20, 2010|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202164414/https://venturebeat.com/2010/07/20/zuckerberg-ceglia/|url-status=live}}

On October 26, 2012, federal authorities arrested Ceglia, charging him with mail and wire fraud and of "tampering with, destroying and fabricating evidence in a scheme to defraud the Facebook founder of billions of dollars". Ceglia is accused of fabricating emails to make it appear that he and Zuckerberg discussed details about an early version of Facebook, although after examining their emails, investigators found there was no mention of Facebook in them.{{cite web |url=http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Feds-Collar-Would-Be-Facebook-Fraudster-76504.html |title=Feds Collar Would-Be Facebook Fraudster |publisher=E-Commerce News |date=October 29, 2012 |access-date=October 30, 2012 |archive-date=May 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511234709/http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Feds-Collar-Would-Be-Facebook-Fraudster-76504.html |url-status=live }} Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia's arrest.{{cite news |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/a-dubious-case-found-lawyers-eager-to-make-some-money/ |title=A Dubious Case Found Lawyers Eager to Make Some Money |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 29, 2012 |access-date=March 5, 2017 |archive-date=December 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202161121/https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/a-dubious-case-found-lawyers-eager-to-make-some-money/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21887915/paul-ceglias-lawyer-drops-out-facebook-suit-after |title=Paul Ceglia's lawyer drops out of Facebook suit after arrest |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=October 30, 2012 |access-date=October 30, 2012 |archive-date=March 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302053344/http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21887915/paul-ceglias-lawyer-drops-out-facebook-suit-after |url-status=live }}

= Hawaiian land ownership =

In 2014 Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land on the Hawaiian island of Kaua{{Okina}}i. In January 2017, Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land that they owned within his acreage.{{Cite news |date=January 23, 2017 |title=Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits |url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-land-lawsuits-kauai-estate |access-date=April 4, 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=April 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404024929/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-land-lawsuits-kauai-estate |url-status=live }} Zuckerberg responded to criticisms in a Facebook post, stating that the lawsuits were a good faith effort to pay the partial owners of the land their "fair share". When he learned that Hawaiian land ownership law differs from that of the other 49 states, he dropped the lawsuits. Zuckerberg stated that he regretted not taking the time to understand the process and its history before moving ahead.[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-hawaii-land-lawsuit Mark Zuckerberg hits back at 'misleading' claims he is suing Hawaiian landowners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110005121/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-hawaii-land-lawsuit |date=November 10, 2017 }}, Wired, January 20, 2017[http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2017/02/26/facebooks-zuckerberg-officially-drops-hawaii-quiet.html "Facebook's Zuckerberg officially drops Hawaii 'quiet title' actions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304193104/http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2017/02/26/facebooks-zuckerberg-officially-drops-hawaii-quiet.html |date=March 4, 2017 }}, Pacific Business News, February 26, 2017

=Testimony before U.S. Congress=

On April 10 and 11, 2018, Zuckerberg testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the usage of personal data by Facebook in relation to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/mark-zuckerberg-us-testimony-it-was-my-mistake-and-im-sorry-facebook-cambridge-analytica/|website=politico.eu|title=Zuckerberg testimony: 'We didn't do enough'|first=John|last=Hendel|year=2018|quote=“We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake”}}{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/facebook-social-media-privacy-and-the-use-and-abuse-of-data|title=Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data |publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|date=April 10, 2018 |access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-date=September 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908134328/https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/facebook-social-media-privacy-and-the-use-and-abuse-of-data|url-status=live}} He called the whole affair a breach of trust between Aleksandr Kogan, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/4/10104712037900071 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |url-access=limited|title=MArk Zuckerberg Facebook Post|publisher=Facebook|date=April 28, 2018}}{{cbignore}} Zuckerberg refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a Parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom.{{Cite news|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43554135|title = Zuckerberg's snub to MPS 'astonishing'|agency = BBC News|date = March 27, 2018|access-date = June 20, 2018|archive-date = May 29, 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180529155150/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43554135|url-status = live}}

On October 1, 2020, the US Senate Commerce Committee unanimously voted to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of three top tech firms, including Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Twitter's Jack Dorsey. The subpoenas aimed to force the CEOs to testify about the legal immunity the law affords tech platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. US Republicans argued that the law unduly protected social media companies against allegations of anti-conservative censorship.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/tech/facebook-google-senate-subpoena/index.html|title=Senate Commerce votes to issue subpoenas to CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter|access-date=October 1, 2020|agency=CNN|date=October 2020 |archive-date=October 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011153717/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/tech/facebook-google-senate-subpoena/index.html |url-status=live}}

On March 25, 2021, Zuckerberg testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding Facebook's role in the spread of misinformation and hate speech on the platform. During the hearing, he was questioned about Facebook's handling of user data, its role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol Building, and its efforts to combat misinformation and hate speech. Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook had a responsibility to address these issues and outlined the steps that the company is taking to improve its policies and practices. The hearing was part of a broader effort by Congress to hold tech companies accountable for their role in shaping public discourse and protecting user privacy.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/25/tech/tech-ceos-hearing/|title=Facebook, Twitter and Google CEOs grilled by Congress on misinformation|access-date=December 15, 2023|agency=CNN|date=March 25, 2021|archive-date=March 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325193152/https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/25/tech/tech-ceos-hearing/|url-status=live}}

In a January 2024 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety and social media platforms, Zuckerberg, along with other tech CEOs, were questioned about their companies' practices. During the hearing, he apologized to the families of children who were victims of online abuse and harm.{{Cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Heather |last2=Lima-Strong |first2=Cristiano |last3=Zakrzewski |first3=Cat |date=January 31, 2024 |title=Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents at Senate child safety hearing |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/31/mark-zuckerberg-apology-hearing-child-safety/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240314162022/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/31/mark-zuckerberg-apology-hearing-child-safety/ |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Hamilton |first=David |date=February 1, 2024 |title=Mark Zuckerberg's long apology tour: A brief history |url=https://apnews.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-apology-c7055b654f63a23d09b6a96388dfa2b4 |publisher=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226142501/https://apnews.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-apology-c7055b654f63a23d09b6a96388dfa2b4 |archive-date=February 26, 2024}}

= Meta's proposal =

Court documents allege that Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teenagers' mental health. He consistently opposed efforts to enhance well-being on Facebook and Instagram, overriding senior executives such as Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Global Affairs President Nick Clegg, as revealed in an ongoing lawsuit. Internal communications disclosed in the Massachusetts-initiated legal action depict Zuckerberg's resistance to better protect over 30 million teens on Instagram in the U.S., highlighting his substantial influence on Meta's decisions impacting billions of users. These documents also shed light on occasional tensions between Zuckerberg and other Meta officials advocating for improved user well-being.{{Cite news |last=Fung |first=Brian |date=November 8, 2023|archive-date=November 9, 2023|title=Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/tech/meta-facebook-instagram-teen-safety/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109120734/https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/tech/meta-facebook-instagram-teen-safety/|access-date=November 10, 2023|agency=CNN|url-status=live}}

Depictions in media

=''The Social Network''=

File:Jesse Eisenberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg (pictured) played Zuckerberg in The Social Network.]]

A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, The Social Network, was released on October 1, 2010, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."{{cite web |access-date=June 26, 2010 |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html?tag=mncol;title |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712204017/http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html?tag=mncol;title |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |title=Zuckerberg in the hot seat at D8 |publisher=CNET |date=June 2, 2010 |author=Fried, Ina }} Also, after the film's script was leaked on the Internet and it was apparent that the film would not portray Zuckerberg in a wholly positive light, he stated that he wanted to establish himself as a "good guy".{{cite news |access-date=July 18, 2010 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127721.ece |title=Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss |newspaper=The Times |date=May 16, 2010 |last=Harlow |first=John |archive-date=November 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118143953/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }} The film is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, which the book's publicist once described as "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage".{{cite news |access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/business/media/21facebook.html |title=Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Film It Inspired |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 20, 2010 |last1=Cieply |first1=Michael |last2=Helft |first2=Miguel |name-list-style=amp |archive-date=April 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409040102/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/business/media/21facebook.html |url-status=live }} The film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told New York magazine, "I don't want my fidelity to be the truth; I want it to be storytelling", adding, "What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?".{{cite magazine |access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=https://nymag.com/movies/features/68319 |title=Inventing Facebook |magazine=New York |date=September 17, 2010 |last=Harris|first=Mark |archive-date=September 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922042113/http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319/ |url-status=live }}

Upon winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture on January 16, 2011, producer Scott Rudin thanked Facebook and Zuckerberg "for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other".{{cite news |url=https://techland.time.com/2011/01/17/the-social-network-filmmakers-thank-zuckerberg-during-golden-globes/ |title=The Social Network Filmmakers Thank Zuckerberg During Golden Globes |work=Techland |date=January 17, 2011 |access-date=January 23, 2011 |archive-date=January 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120160001/http://techland.time.com/2011/01/17/the-social-network-filmmakers-thank-zuckerberg-during-golden-globes/ |url-status=live }} Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:{{cite journal |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/aaron_sorkin.html |title=Last Night, Aaron Sorkin Demonstrated How to Apologize Without Accepting Responsibility |journal=New York |date=January 17, 2011 |access-date=March 16, 2020 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927174810/http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/aaron_sorkin.html |url-status=live }}

:I wanted to say to Mark Zuckerberg tonight, if you're watching, Rooney Mara's character makes a prediction at the beginning of the movie. She was wrong. You turned out to be a great entrepreneur, a visionary, and an incredible altruist.

In January 2011, Zuckerberg made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they had met.{{cite magazine|access-date=January 30, 2011 |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462104,00.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg Meets Jesse Eisenberg on Saturday Night Live |magazine=People |date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131034819/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462104,00.html |archive-date=January 31, 2011 }} Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting."{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/jesse-eisenberg-meets-the-real-mark-zuckerberg-on-snl/ |title=Jesse Eisenberg meets the real Mark Zuckerberg on SNL |publisher=Digital Trends |date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=February 12, 2011 |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210164515/https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/jesse-eisenberg-meets-the-real-mark-zuckerberg-on-snl/ |url-status=live }} In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg explained that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now, a year and a half thinking about him ...". He added, "Mark has been so gracious about something that's really so uncomfortable ... The fact that he would do SNL and make fun of the situation is so sweet and so generous. It's the best possible way to handle something that, I think, could otherwise be very uncomfortable."[http://www.popsugar.com/Pictures-Jesse-Eisenberg-83rd-Annual-Academy-Awards-Nominees-Luncheon-13752458 "Jesse Eisenberg Calls Mark Zuckerberg "Sweet" and "Generous" in His Funny Oscar Nominees Lunch Interview"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210014505/http://www.popsugar.com/Pictures-Jesse-Eisenberg-83rd-Annual-Academy-Awards-Nominees-Luncheon-13752458 |date=February 10, 2011 }} PopSugar, February 7, 2011[https://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/01/31/133345641/mark-zuckerberg-meets-jesse-eisenberg-on-the-saturday-night-live-stage "Mark Zuckerberg Meets Jesse Eisenberg On The 'Saturday Night Live' Stage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405011422/http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/01/31/133345641/mark-zuckerberg-meets-jesse-eisenberg-on-the-saturday-night-live-stage |date=April 5, 2015 }} NPR, January 30, 2011

==Disputed accuracy==

According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at Fortune magazine and author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World (2011),[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439102120 "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202164428/https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439102120 |date=December 2, 2017 }}, release date February 1, 2011 "the film is only 40% true ... he is not snide and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie." He says that "a lot of the factual incidents are accurate, but many are distorted and the overall impression is false", and concludes that primarily "his motivations were to try and come up with a new way to share information on the Internet".Rohrer, Finlo. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11437873 "Is the Facebook movie the truth about Mark Zuckerberg"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123002149/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11437873|date=November 23, 2018}} BBC, September 30, 2010

Although the film portrayed Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite final clubs at Harvard, Zuckerberg stated that he had no interest in joining the clubs. Kirkpatrick agreed that the impression implied by the film is "false". Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, noted that the "image of Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ...". He likewise dismissed the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend".

=Other depictions=

Zuckerberg voiced himself on an episode of The Simpsons titled "Loan-a Lisa", which first aired on October 3, 2010. In the episode, Lisa Simpson and her friend Nelson encounter Zuckerberg at an entrepreneurs' convention. Zuckerberg tells Lisa that she does not need to graduate from college to be wildly successful, referencing Bill Gates and Richard Branson as examples.{{cite magazine |access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/facebook_creator_mark_zuckerbe.html |title=Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg to Get Yellow on The Simpsons |magazine=New York |date=July 21, 2010 |archive-date=July 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725155006/http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/facebook_creator_mark_zuckerbe.html |url-status=live }} On October 9, 2010, Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/11/snl.facebook.zuckerberg/index.html?hpt=T2 |title=Facebook, Zuckerberg spoofed on 'SNL' |first=Brandon |last=Griggs |publisher=CNN |date=October 11, 2010 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110114609/http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/11/snl.facebook.zuckerberg/index.html?hpt=T2 |url-status=live }} Andy Samberg portrayed the role of Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg himself was reported to have been amused, "I thought this was funny."{{cite web |access-date=January 28, 2011 |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/mark_zuckerberg_liked_snls_fac.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Liked' SNL's Facebook Skit |work=New York |date=October 12, 2010 |archive-date=October 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101015032903/http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/mark_zuckerberg_liked_snls_fac.html |url-status=live }}

Stephen Colbert awarded a "Medal of Fear" to Zuckerberg at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010, "because he values his privacy much more than he values yours".{{cite news |author1=Lerer, Lisa |author2=McMillan, Traci |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-30/comedy-central-s-stewart-says-press-politicians-are-creating-extremism.html |title=Comedy Central's Stewart Says Press, Politicians Are Creating Extremism |date=October 30, 2010 |publisher=Bloomberg News|access-date=November 4, 2010 |archive-date=November 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103161759/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-30/comedy-central-s-stewart-says-press-politicians-are-creating-extremism.html |url-status=live }} Zuckerberg appeared in the climax of 2013 documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply.{{cite news |author=Nina Metz |department=Chicago Closeup |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |title=Terms and Conditions May Apply |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524171502/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |archive-date=May 24, 2014}}{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/movies/terms-and-conditions-may-apply-details-digital-age-loss-of-privacy.html|title='Terms and Conditions May Apply' Details Digital-Age Loss of Privacy|date=July 11, 2013|access-date=May 25, 2014|last1=Catsoulis|first1=Jeannette|archive-date=February 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210164515/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/movies/terms-and-conditions-may-apply-details-digital-age-loss-of-privacy.html|url-status=live}} (paid){{cite news |first=Cullen |last=Hoback |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback |title=Our data is our digital identity – and we need to reclaim control | Technology |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 25, 2014 |date=September 19, 2013 |archive-date=January 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121234335/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback |url-status=live }} The South Park episode "Franchise Prequel" mocked him. According to CNET, he was portrayed as "a rosy-cheeked bully nerd who utters strange noises, makes peculiar kung fu gestures and turns up wherever he likes in people's houses".{{cite web|access-date=April 2, 2018|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-savaged-by-south-park/|title=Mark Zuckerberg savaged by 'South Park'|publisher=CNET|date=October 12, 2017|archive-date=March 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329071532/https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-savaged-by-south-park/|url-status=live}}

Donations and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Zuckerberg founded the Startup:Education foundation.{{cite news|url=https://secure.vnuemedia.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i386774579db7c203321dc871f916d867|work=The Hollywood Reporter |title=Mark Zuckerberg: 'The Social Network' is 'fun'|first=Philiana|last=Ng|date=September 24, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120915032857/https://secure.vnuemedia.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i386774579db7c203321dc871f916d867|archive-date=September 15, 2012}} It was reported in September 2010 that he had donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey.{{cite news|url=http://education.newsweek.com/2010/11/23/can-mark-zuckerberg-s-money-save-newark-s-schools.html |work=Newsweek|title=Can Mark Zuckerberg's Money Save Newark's Schools?|date=November 23, 2010|first=Ryan|last=Tracy |url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101130072722/http%3A//education.newsweek.com/2010/11/23/can%2Dmark%2Dzuckerberg%2Ds%2Dmoney%2Dsave%2Dnewark%2Ds%2Dschools.html|archive-date=November 30, 2010 }}{{cite news|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-ceo-to-gift-100m-to-newark-schools/ |title=Facebook CEO to Gift $100M to Newark Schools |publisher=CBS News|date=September 22, 2010 |first=David |last=Reidel|archive-date=September 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924080040/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/national/main6892301.shtml|url-status=live }} Critics noted the timing of the donation as being close to the release of The Social Network, which painted a somewhat negative portrait of Zuckerberg.{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/mark_zuckerberg_to_give_100_mi.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg's Well-Timed $100 million Donation to Newark Public Schools |work=New York|date=September 22, 2010|access-date=September 28, 2010|archive-date=September 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926110129/http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/mark_zuckerberg_to_give_100_mi.html|url-status=live }} Zuckerberg responded to the criticism, saying, "The thing that I was most sensitive about with the movie timing was, I didn't want the press about The Social Network movie to get conflated with the Newark project. I was thinking about doing this anonymously just so that the two things could be kept separate."{{cite magazine |url=https://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/09/24/zuckerberg-pressured-to-announce-100-million-donation-to-newark |title=Zuckerberg Pressured To Announce $100 million Donation To Newark |magazine=Forbes |date=September 24, 2010 |access-date=September 28, 2010 |first=Mike |last=Isaac |archive-date=September 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926213130/http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/09/24/zuckerberg-pressured-to-announce-100-million-donation-to-newark/ |url-status=live }} Newark Mayor Cory Booker stated that he and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had to convince Zuckerberg's team not to make the donation anonymously. The money was largely wasted, according to journalist Dale Russakoff.{{Cite web|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerbergs-100-million-donation-155608055.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark public schools failed miserably — here's where it went wrong|publisher=Yahoo! Finance|date=September 25, 2015 |access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119220642/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerbergs-100-million-donation-155608055.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-prize-by-dale-russakoff.html|title='The Prize,' by Dale Russakoff|first=Alex|last=Kotlowitz|date=August 19, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=February 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205130408/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-prize-by-dale-russakoff.html|url-status=live}}

In 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed The Giving Pledge, in which they said they would donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50 percent or more of their wealth to charity.* {{cite news |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16813123?nclick_check=1 |first=Sandra |last=Gonzales |title=Zuckerberg to donate wealth |date=December 8, 2010 |access-date=December 9, 2010 |archive-date=February 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221221306/http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16813123?nclick_check=1 |url-status=live }}

{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10870361 |title=US billionaires pledge 50% of their wealth to charity |date=August 4, 2010 |publisher=BBC |access-date=September 6, 2010 |archive-date=August 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830170602/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10870361 |url-status=live }}
{{cite magazine |last=Moss |first=Rosabeth |url=http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101214_945792.htm |title=Four Strategic Generosity Lessons |magazine=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=December 14, 2010 |access-date=March 9, 2011 |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225154751/http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101214_945792.htm |url-status=dead }} In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan said that over the course of their lives they would give the majority of their wealth to "advancing human potential and promoting equality" in the spirit of The Giving Pledge.[https://www.givingpledge.org/ The Giving Pledge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231051705/https://www.givingpledge.org/ |date=December 31, 2017 }} website. Retrieved December 3, 2015{{cite web|url=https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=314|title=Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan|publisher=The Giving Pledge|access-date=July 16, 2017|archive-date=August 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828231947/https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=314|url-status=live}}

In December 2013, Zuckerberg announced a donation of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to be executed by the end of the month—based on Facebook's valuation as of then, the shares totaled $990 million in value. Later that month, the donation was recognized as the largest charitable gift on public record for that year.* {{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24760678/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-makes-1-billion-donation|title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg makes $1 billion donation|last=Bailey|first=Brandon|date=December 19, 2013|access-date=December 20, 2013|newspaper=The Mercury News|archive-date=December 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220023538/http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24760678/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-makes-1-billion-donation|url-status=live}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10528624/Mark-Zuckerberg-donates-1bn-to-charity.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10528624/Mark-Zuckerberg-donates-1bn-to-charity.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mark Zuckerberg donates $1bn to charity|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=December 19, 2013|access-date=December 20, 2013|first=Matthew |last=Sparkes}}{{cbignore}}
{{cite web|title=Zuckerberg's Other Billion-Dollar Idea: 2013's Biggest Charitable Gift|url=http://mashable.com/2014/01/02/zuckerberg-charitable-donation-2013|publisher=Mashable|access-date=January 3, 2014|first=Kurt|last=Wagner|date=January 3, 2014|archive-date=January 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104055100/http://mashable.com/2014/01/02/zuckerberg-charitable-donation-2013/|url-status=live}} The Chronicle of Philanthropy placed Zuckerberg and his wife at the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most generous Americans for 2013, having donated roughly $1 billion to charity.{{cite news|newspaper=USA Today|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/10/zuckerberg-biggest-giver/5355871|title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg biggest giver in 2013|date=February 10, 2014|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202164654/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/10/zuckerberg-biggest-giver/5355871/|url-status=live}}

In October 2014, Zuckerberg and his wife donated $25 million to combat the Ebola virus disease, specifically the West African Ebola virus epidemic.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/14/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-donate-25-million-to-ebola-fight|title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan donate $25 million to Ebola fight|last=Phillip|first=Abby|date=October 14, 2014|access-date=October 25, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=October 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020112530/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/14/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-donate-25-million-to-ebola-fight/|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2014/10/14/mark-zuckerberg-is-giving-25-million-to-fight-ebola|title=Mark Zuckerberg Is Giving $25 Million To Fight Ebola|last=Kroll|first=Luisa|date=October 14, 2014|access-date=October 25, 2014|magazine=Forbes|archive-date=October 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022053126/http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2014/10/14/mark-zuckerberg-is-giving-25-million-to-fight-ebola/|url-status=live}} The couple endowed the foundation of the San Francisco General Hospital in February 2015 with $75 million, which was the biggest individual donation to a U.S. public hospital. The hospital honored them by renaming itself as The Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Later in 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a near-unanimous, non-binding measure condemning the renaming, citing concerns that a public hospital should not be named after an individual whose social media platform is accused of "endangering public health, spreading misinformation, and violating privacy".* {{Cite web|last=Botelho|first=Greg|date=February 7, 2015|title=Zuckerberg, wife give $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital|url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/07/tech/zuckerberg-hospital-donation/index.html|website=CNN Business|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203121935/https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/07/tech/zuckerberg-hospital-donation/index.html|archive-date=February 3, 2024|url-status=live}}

{{Cite web|last=Schleifer|first=Theodore|date=December 15, 2020|title=Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city has condemned him anyway.|url=https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/3/22151273/mark-zuckerberg-general-hospital-san-francisco-naming-vote|website=Vox|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419162358/https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/3/22151273/mark-zuckerberg-general-hospital-san-francisco-naming-vote|archive-date=April 19, 2024|url-status=live}}
{{Cite web|last=Har|first=Janie|date=December 15, 2020|title=San Francisco board rebukes naming hospital for Facebook CEO|url=https://apnews.com/general-news-6bafe23177047b052c345a388ef322d3|publisher=Associated Press|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516050853/https://apnews.com/general-news-6bafe23177047b052c345a388ef322d3|archive-date=May 16, 2024|url-status=live}} On December 1, 2015, the couple pledged to transfer 99% of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charity.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Donate 99% of His Facebook Shares for Charity|date=December 1, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723095124/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charity.html|url-status=live}} The funds would not be transferred immediately, but over the course of their lives.{{cite news|title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to give away 99% of shares|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34978249|date=December 1, 2015|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 1, 2015|archive-date=December 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202102144/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34978249|url-status=live}} Instead of forming a charitable corporation to donate the value of the stock to, as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and other billionaires have done, Zuckerberg and Chan chose to use the structure of a limited liability company (LLC). Some journalists and academics have said the CZI conducts philanthrocapitalism.{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-rise-of-philanthrocapitalism|title=Mark Zuckerberg and the Rise of Philanthrocapitalism|date=December 2, 2015|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=March 16, 2020|archive-date=December 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222050800/https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-rise-of-philanthrocapitalism|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/technology/zuckerbergs-philanthropy-uses-llc-for-more-control.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg's Philanthropy Uses L.L.C. for More Control|date=December 2, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=January 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112114222/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/technology/zuckerbergs-philanthropy-uses-llc-for-more-control.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://econreview.berkeley.edu/the-merits-and-drawbacks-of-philanthrocapitalism/ |title=The Merits and Drawbacks of Philanthrocapitalism |publisher=Berkeley Economic Review |date=March 14, 2019 |access-date=March 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325030056/https://econreview.berkeley.edu/the-merits-and-drawbacks-of-philanthrocapitalism/ |url-status=live }}

In 2016, CZI gave $600 million to create the tax-exempt charity Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a collaborative research space in San Francisco's Mission Bay district near the University of California, San Francisco, with the intent to foster interaction and collaboration between scientists at UCSF, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. Intellectual property generated would be jointly owned by Biohub and the discoverer's home institution. Unlike foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which open up all research funded to unrestricted access and reuse by the public, Biohub retained the right to commercialize any research it funds. Inventors will have the option of making their discoveries open-source, with permission from Biohub.{{cite web |url=https://www.czbiohub.org/competition/faq/ |title=Frequently Asked Questions – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub |work=Czbiohub.org |access-date=May 21, 2020 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803205233/https://www.czbiohub.org/competition/faq/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Maxmen |first1=Amy |title='Riskiest ideas' win $50 million from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub |journal=Nature |date=February 16, 2017 |volume=542 |issue=7641 |pages=280–281 |doi=10.1038/nature.2017.21440 |pmid=28202988 |bibcode=2017Natur.542..280M |doi-access=free |issn=0028-0836 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-contract |title=Document Shows How Mark Zuckerberg's New Science Charity Will Handle IP |website=BuzzFeed News |date=November 1, 2016 |access-date=March 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325022553/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-contract |url-status=live }} To increase access to scientific research and promote open science, CZ Biohub requires its investigators and staff scientists to publish submitted manuscripts and related data on preprints servers such as bioRxiv.{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0719|last=Kaiser|first=Jocelyn|date=February 8, 2017|journal=Science|title=Chan Zuckerberg Biohub funds first crop of 47 investigators|doi=10.1126/science.aal0719 |access-date=March 3, 2022|archive-date=March 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304133040/https://www.science.org/content/article/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-funds-first-crop-47-investigators|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url= https://www.czbiohub.org/competition/faq/ |publisher=Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network |title= FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: CHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB INTERCAMPUS RESEARCH AWARDS |access-date= January 14, 2021 |archive-date= December 5, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201205222343/https://www.czbiohub.org/competition/faq/ |url-status= live }} Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuckerberg announced $25 million in grants to support local journalism that was impacted by the pandemic and $75 million in advertisement purchases in local newspapers by Facebook, Inc., where Facebook would market itself.{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-local-news-coronavirus-41b7e6ee-2a19-4d51-b05f-1ff3980d6948.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg: "Local journalism is incredibly important" to fighting coronavirus crisis|first=Mike|last=Allen|website=Axios|date=March 30, 2020 |access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028212333/https://www.axios.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-local-news-coronavirus-41b7e6ee-2a19-4d51-b05f-1ff3980d6948.html|url-status=live}}

Politics

File:Zuckerberg meets Obama.jpg before a private meeting between Obama and technology business leaders in February 2011]]

In 2002, Zuckerberg registered to vote in Westchester County, New York, where he grew up, but did not cast a ballot until November 2008. Then Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Spokeswoman, Elma Rosas, told Bloomberg that Zuckerberg is listed as "no preference" on voter rolls, and he voted in at least two of the past three general elections, in 2008 and 2012.{{cite news |title=President Obama's Facebook appearance aimed at young voters; Bay Area visit targets big donors |url=https://www.baycitizen.org/news/technology/zuckerberg-voting-record/ |access-date=December 23, 2013 |newspaper=The Bay Citizen |date=April 19, 2011 |author=Katharine Mieszkowski|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224123126/https://www.baycitizen.org/news/technology/zuckerberg-voting-record/ |archive-date=December 24, 2013 }}{{cite news |title=Protestors Target Mark Zuckerberg's Fundraiser For N.J. Gov. Chris Christie |url=http://allfacebook.com/zuckerberg-fundraiser-chris-christie-picketed_b110767 |access-date=December 23, 2013 |newspaper=AllFacebook |date=February 14, 2013 |first=David |last=Cohen |archive-date=August 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804054549/http://allfacebook.com/zuckerberg-fundraiser-chris-christie-picketed_b110767 |url-status=live }}

Zuckerberg has never revealed his own political affiliation or voting history. In February 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for then New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. His particular interest on this occasion was education reform, and Christie's education reform work focused on teachers unions and the expansion of charter schools.{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' Governor Chris Christie |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/02/13/mark-zuckerberg-likes-governor-chris-christie.html |access-date=June 20, 2013 |publisher=CNBC |date=February 13, 2013 |author=Julia Boorstin |archive-date=April 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406115748/http://www.cnbc.com/id/100457234 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Facebook Chief to Hold Fund-Raiser for Christie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/nyregion/mark-zuckerberg-plans-fund-raiser-for-gov-christie.html |access-date=June 20, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 24, 2013 |author=Kate Zernike |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222163054/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/nyregion/mark-zuckerberg-plans-fund-raiser-for-gov-christie.html |url-status=live }} Later that year, Zuckerberg hosted a campaign fundraiser for then Newark mayor Cory Booker, who was running in the 2013 New Jersey special Senate election.{{cite news |last=Young |first=Elise |title=Zuckerberg Plans Fundraiser for Cory Booker's Senate Run |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-07/zuckerberg-plans-fundraiser-for-cory-booker-s-senate-run.html |access-date=October 18, 2013 |publisher=Bloomberg News |date=June 8, 2013 |archive-date=October 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023174617/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-07/zuckerberg-plans-fundraiser-for-cory-booker-s-senate-run.html |url-status=live }} In September 2010, with the support of Governor Chris Christie, Booker obtained a US$100 million pledge from Zuckerberg to Newark Public Schools.Christine Richard, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-28/ackman-money-for-booker-brings-wall-street-to-newark-with-240-million-aid.html "Ackman Cash for Booker Brings $240 Million Aid From Wall Street"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030151514/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-28/ackman-money-for-booker-brings-wall-street-to-newark-with-240-million-aid.html |date=October 30, 2014 }}, Bloomberg, October 28, 2010 In December 2012, Zuckerberg donated 18 million shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a community organization that includes education in its list of grant-making areas.{{cite web |url=http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/content/education |title=Education |publisher=Silicon valley Community Foundation |access-date=June 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603065637/http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/content/education |archive-date=June 3, 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mike-cassidy/ci_22598880/cassidy-silicon-valley-needs-harness-its-innovative-spirit |title=Cassidy: Silicon Valley needs to harness its innovative spirit to level the playing field for blacks and Hispanics |last=Cassidy |first=Mike |date=February 15, 2013 |access-date=April 23, 2013 |newspaper=The Mercury News |archive-date=June 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620121858/http://www.mercurynews.com/mike-cassidy/ci_22598880/cassidy-silicon-valley-needs-harness-its-innovative-spirit |url-status=live }}

On April 11, 2013, Zuckerberg led the launch of a 501(c)(4) lobbying group called FWD.us. The founders and contributors to the group were primarily Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors, and its president was Joe Green, a close friend of Zuckerberg.{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/ |title=Zuckerberg And A Team Of Tech All-Stars Launch Political Advocacy Group FWD.us |last=Constine |first=Josh |date=April 11, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2013 |work=TechCrunch |archive-date=April 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414172319/http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/zuckerberg-launches-a-tech-lobby-but-what-will-it-do-differently/ |title=Zuckerberg Launches A Tech Lobby, But What Will It Do Differently? |last=Ferenstein |first=Gregory |date=April 11, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2013 |work=TechCrunch |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415163305/http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/zuckerberg-launches-a-tech-lobby-but-what-will-it-do-differently/ |url-status=live }} The goals of the group include immigration reform, improving the state of education in the United States, and enabling more technological breakthroughs that benefit the public,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration and the knowledge economy |last=Zuckerberg |first=Mark |date=April 11, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-date=April 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413201240/http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.fwd.us/about_us |title=About Us |publisher=FWD.us |access-date=April 17, 2013 |archive-date=April 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413230918/http://www.fwd.us/about_us |url-status=live }} yet it has also been criticized for financing ads advocating a variety of oil and gas development initiatives, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Keystone XL pipeline.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-takes-heat-over-keystone-drilling-ads |title=Facebook's Zuckerberg Takes Heat Over Keystone, Drilling Ads |last=Handley |first=Meg |date=April 30, 2013 |access-date=May 3, 2013 |work=U.S. News & World Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503041052/https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-takes-heat-over-keystone-drilling-ads |archive-date=May 3, 2013 }} In 2013, numerous liberal and progressive groups, such as The League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, Democracy for America, CREDO, Daily Kos, 350.org, and Presente and Progressives United agreed to either not buy or pull their Facebook ads for at least two weeks, in protest of ads funded by FWD.us that were in support of oil drilling and the Keystone XL pipeline, and in opposition to Obamacare among Republican United States senators who back immigration reform.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/07/liberal-groups-boycotting-facebook-over-immigration-push/ |title=Liberal groups boycotting Facebook over immigration push |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Weiner |first=Rachel |access-date=August 7, 2013 |archive-date=September 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922232821/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/07/liberal-groups-boycotting-facebook-over-immigration-push/ |url-status=live }}

A media report on June 20, 2013, revealed that Zuckerberg actively engaged with Facebook users on his own profile page after the online publication of a FWD.us video. In response to a claim that the FWD.us organization is "just about tech wanting to hire more people", the Internet entrepreneur replied, "The bigger problem we're trying to address is ensuring the 11 million undocumented folks living in this country now and similar folks in the future are treated fairly."{{cite web |title=Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/20/zuckerberg-immigration-reform/?ncid=tcdaily |work=TechCrunch |publisher=Aol Tech |access-date=June 20, 2013 |first=Josh |last=Constine |date=June 20, 2013 |archive-date=June 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624015810/http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/20/zuckerberg-immigration-reform/?ncid=tcdaily |url-status=live }}

In June 2013, Zuckerberg joined Facebook employees in a company float as part of the annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration. The company first participated in the event in 2011, with 70 employees, and this number increased to 700 for the 2013 march. The 2013 pride celebration was especially significant, as it followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that deemed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.{{cite web |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/30/tech-pride/?ncid=tcdaily |work=TechCrunch |publisher=AOL Inc |access-date=July 2, 2013 |first=Billy |last=Gallagher |date=June 30, 2013 |archive-date=July 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705232532/http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/30/tech-pride/?ncid=tcdaily |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg Leads 700 Facebook Employees in SF Gay Pride |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/30/mark-zuckerberg-leads-700-facebook-employees-in-sf-gay-pride/ |access-date=July 2, 2013 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=June 30, 2013 |author=Evelyn M. Rusli |archive-date=July 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702084721/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/30/mark-zuckerberg-leads-700-facebook-employees-in-sf-gay-pride/ |url-status=live }}

When questioned about the mid-2013 PRISM scandal at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September 2013, Zuckerberg stated that the U.S. government "blew it". He further explained that the government performed poorly in regard to the protection of the freedoms of its citizens, the economy, and companies.

File:Cristina Kirchner and Mark Zuckerberg.jpg in April 2015]]

Zuckerberg placed a statement on his Facebook wall on December 9, 2015, which said that he wants "to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world" in response to the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2015 San Bernardino attack.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thewrap.com/mark-zuckerberg-vows-to-fight-to-protect-muslim-rights-on-facebook/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg Vows to 'Fight to Protect' Muslim Rights on Facebook |access-date=December 10, 2015 |last=Emery |first=Debbie |date=December 9, 2015 |magazine=TheWrap |archive-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211161017/http://www.thewrap.com/mark-zuckerberg-vows-to-fight-to-protect-muslim-rights-on-facebook/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://time.com/4143858/mark-zuckerberg-muslims/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg Offers Support to Muslims in Facebook Post |access-date=December 10, 2015 |last=White |first=Daniel |date=December 9, 2015 |magazine=Time |archive-date=December 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209233815/http://time.com/4143858/mark-zuckerberg-muslims/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/10/mark-zuckerberg-support-muslims-donald-trump |title=Mark Zuckerberg speaks in support of Muslims after week of 'hate' |access-date=December 10, 2015 |last=Griffin |first=Andrew |date=December 9, 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210012459/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/10/mark-zuckerberg-support-muslims-donald-trump |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYunhjsmTqM | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211027/BYunhjsmTqM| archive-date=October 27, 2021|title=Mark Zuckerberg Stands With Muslims|access-date=December 11, 2015 |last=Cenk Uygur |date=December 10, 2015 |publisher=The Young Turks}}{{cbignore}} The statement also said that Muslims are "always welcome" on Facebook, and that his position was a result of the fact that, "as a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities."{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.691209 |title=Zuckerberg Invokes Jewish Heritage in Facebook Post Supporting Muslims |access-date=December 10, 2015 |date=December 10, 2015 |work=Haaretz |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210172254/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.691209 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12043025/Mark-Zuckerberg-voices-support-for-Muslims-amid-Donald-Trump-ban-row.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12043025/Mark-Zuckerberg-voices-support-for-Muslims-amid-Donald-Trump-ban-row.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mark Zuckerberg voices support for Muslims amid Donald Trump ban row|access-date=December 10, 2015 |last=Tait |first=Robert |date=December 9, 2015 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}

On February 24, 2016, Zuckerberg sent out a company-wide internal memo to employees formally rebuking employees who had crossed out handwritten "Black Lives Matter" phrases on the company walls and had written "All Lives Matter" in their place. Facebook allows employees to free-write thoughts and phrases on company walls. The memo was then leaked by several employees. As Zuckerberg had previously condemned this practice at previous company meetings, and other similar requests had been issued by other leaders at Facebook, Zuckerberg wrote in the memo that he would now consider this overwriting practice not only disrespectful, but "malicious as well". According to Zuckerberg's memo, "Black Lives Matter doesn't mean other lives don't – it's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve." The memo also noted that the act of crossing something out in itself "means silencing speech, or that one person's speech is more important than another's". Zuckerberg also said in the memo that he would be launching investigations into the incidents.{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Shaun |title=Mark Zuckerberg forced to address racism among Facebook staff after vandals target Black Lives Matter phrases |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-mark-zuckerberg-forced-address-racism-facebook-article-1.2543985 |access-date=February 26, 2016 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=February 25, 2016 |archive-date=February 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202025559/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-mark-zuckerberg-forced-address-racism-facebook-article-1.2543985 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Jessica |first1=Guynn |title=Zuckerberg reprimands Facebook staff defacing 'Black Lives Matter' slogan |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/02/25/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-black-lives-matter-diversity/80933694/ |access-date=February 26, 2016 |newspaper=USA Today |date=February 25, 2016 |archive-date=March 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318170616/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/02/25/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-black-lives-matter-diversity/80933694/ |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |last1=Snyder |first1=Benjamin |title=Mark Zuckerberg Takes Facebook Workers to Task Over 'All Lives Matter' Graffiti |url=http://fortune.com/2016/02/25/mark-zuckerberg-black-lives-matter/ |access-date=February 26, 2016 |magazine=Fortune |date=February 25, 2016 |archive-date=February 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225220147/http://fortune.com/2016/02/25/mark-zuckerberg-black-lives-matter/ |url-status=live }} The New York Daily News interviewed Facebook employees who commented anonymously that, "Zuckerberg was genuinely angry about the incident and it really encouraged staff that Zuckerberg showed a clear understanding of why the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' must exist, as well as why writing through it is a form of harassment and erasure."

In January 2017, Zuckerberg criticized Donald Trump's executive order to severely limit immigrants and refugees from some countries.{{cite news |date=January 28, 2017 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-immigration-order-facebook |title=Mark Zuckerberg challenges Trump on immigration and 'extreme vetting' order |newspaper=The Guardian |last=Wong |first=Julia Carrie |author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |access-date=August 16, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020714/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-immigration-order-facebook }} He also funded a state-level ballot initiative for the 2020 general election that would raise taxes by altering California's Proposition 13 to require the tax assessment of commercial and industrial properties in the state at market rate.{{cite web |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article236493983.html |title=Petitions for a property tax change are coming to a grocery store near you. Here's what to know |work=The Sacramento Bee |last=Bollag |first=Sophia |date=October 23, 2019 |access-date=August 16, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304133058/https://account.sacbee.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=236493983&intcid=ab_archive }}

Especially in his twenties, Zuckerberg had financially supported various progressive causes such as immigration reform and social justice. At least among Republicans, he was generally seen as pro-liberal. In an August 2024 letter to the House Judiciary Committee however, Zuckerberg stated he regretted not doing more to resist pressure from the Biden administration to censor content related to COVID-19. He also noted he no longer intends to donate towards election infrastructure; Republicans had seen those contributions as non-neutral, labeling them "Zuckerbucks". By 2024, Zuckerberg was discouraging employee activism at Facebook, and according to The New York Times, had privately described his politics as leaning towards libertarianism or classical liberalism.{{cite web |last1=Schleifer |first1=Theodore |last2=Isaac |first2=Mike |date=September 27, 2024 |title=Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html |access-date=October 13, 2024 |work=New York Times}}{{cite web |last= |first= |date=August 27, 2024 |title=Mark Zuckerberg says White House 'pressured' Facebook to censor Covid-19 content |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-19-content |access-date=October 13, 2024 |work=The Guardian}}{{cite web |last=Shapero |first=Julia |date=August 26, 2024 |title=Zuckerberg says he regrets not being more outspoken about 'government pressure' on COVID content |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4849003-meta-mark-zuckerberg-biden-administration-government-pressure/ |access-date=October 13, 2024 |work=The Hill}}{{cite web |date=August 27, 2024 |title=Business Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some COVID-19 content during the pandemic |url=https://apnews.com/article/meta-platforms-mark-zuckerberg-biden-facebook-covid19-463ac6e125b0d004b16c7943633673fc |access-date=October 13, 2024 |work=Associated Press}}

File:President Trump Meets with Mark Zuckerberg (48765153148).jpg at the White House in September 2019]]

In Donald Trump's book Save America, published in September 2024, Trump described Zuckerberg's visits to the White House and wrote "We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election."{{Cite news |last=Isenstadt |first=Alex |date=August 28, 2024 |title=Trump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election in soon-to-be released book |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639 |access-date=January 8, 2025 |newspaper=Politico}} Two months later, they dined at the Mar-a-Lago resort, with Zuckerberg aiming to mend his and his firm's relationship with Trump after the latter won the election.{{Cite news |first=Tom |last=Gerken |title=Mark Zuckerberg dines with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87x98q8y08o |date=November 28, 2024 |access-date=December 12, 2024 |publisher=BBC News}} Around the same time, Meta reportedly donated $1 million to a Trump-related fund.{{Cite news |first=Liv |last=McMahon |title=Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9e1x9z2xo |date=December 12, 2024 |access-date=December 12, 2024 |publisher=BBC News}} In January 2025, he said: "We now have a U.S. administration that is proud of our leading companies, prioritizes American technology winning and that will defend our values and interests abroad."{{Cite web |last=Vanian |first=Jonathan |last2=Cnbc • • |date=2025-01-29 |title=Meta shares pop after company beats on revenue |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/meta-to-report-fourth-quarter-earnings-after-the-bell-2/6126646/?os=lekshmi&ref=app |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=NBC New York |language=en-US}} Zuckerberg was one of a handful of technology leaders positioned prominently at Trump’s inauguration. In March 2025, Zuckerberg attempted to leverage his relationship with the Trump administration to get a favorable settlement in an antitrust case where the FTC was asking for $30 billion.{{Cite web |last=Dawsey |first=Dana Mattioli, Rebecca Ballhaus and Josh |title=Exclusive {{!}} Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case |url=https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/mark-zuckerberg-meta-antitrust-ftc-negotiations-a53b3382 |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}

Personal life

= Marriage and children =

File:Visita_de_Mark_Zuckerberg_a_Los_Pinos._(15150761882)_(cropped).jpg, in 2014]]

Zuckerberg met fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan at a frat party during his sophomore year. They began dating in 2003.{{cite magazine |magazine=Forbes|first=Clare |last=O'Connor |title=Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Priscilla Chan: A New Brand of Billionaire Bride |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/20/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-priscilla-chan-a-new-brand-of-billionaire-bride/ |date=May 20, 2012 |access-date=May 21, 2012 |archive-date=May 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522082908/http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/20/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-priscilla-chan-a-new-brand-of-billionaire-bride/|url-status=live}} In September 2010, Chan, who was a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco at the time,[http://medschool2.ucsf.edu/spotlights/white-coats-rainbow-students "White Coats on a Rainbow of Students"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112205926/http://medschool2.ucsf.edu/spotlights/white-coats-rainbow-students |date=January 12, 2013 }}, Spotlight, UCSF School of Medicine. Cf. Priscilla Chan, 23. moved into his rented house in Palo Alto, California.{{cite news|url=http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Zuckerberg-Goes-Searching-in-China-71499.html?wlc=1292882576|title=Zuckerberg Goes Searching in China|first=Rob|last=Spiegel |date=December 20, 2010|access-date=December 20, 2010|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202160349/https://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Zuckerberg-Goes-Searching-in-China-71499.html?wlc=1292882576 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |work=ChineseTime.cn |url=http://www.chinesetime.cn/learn/chinese/forum/tabid/119/forumid/-1/postid/4618/scope/posts/language/en-US/Default.aspx |title=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg learn chinese every morning |date=September 29, 2010|access-date=November 7, 2010|archive-date=November 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124032855/http://www.chinesetime.cn/learn/chinese/forum/tabid/119/forumid/-1/postid/4618/scope/posts/language/en-US/Default.aspx|url-status=dead }} They married on May 19, 2012, in the grounds of his mansion in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.{{cite news |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/|access-date=May 20, 2012|publisher=CBS News|archive-date=August 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813135358/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57437780-501465/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news|first=Marcus|last=Wohlsen|title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan: Palo Alto, Calif., ceremony caps busy week after company goes public|date=May 19, 2012|publisher=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/47491836|access-date=May 20, 2012|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806134643/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47491836|url-status=dead}} Zuckerberg revealed in July 2015 that they were expecting a baby girl and that Chan had previously experienced three miscarriages.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33743740|title=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to become a father |agency=BBC News |date=July 31, 2015 |access-date=August 1, 2015|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202160223/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33743740 |url-status=live }} Their first daughter was born in December 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/01/mark-zuckerberg-will-give-away-99-percent-of-his-facebook-stock/|title=Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook stock, worth $45 billion|first1=Todd C.|last1=Frankel|first2=Brian|last2=Fung|first3=Lyndsey|last3=Layton|access-date=October 24, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=August 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816152434/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/01/mark-zuckerberg-will-give-away-99-percent-of-his-facebook-stock/|url-status=live}} They announced in a Chinese New Year video that their daughter's Chinese name is Chen Mingyu ({{zh|陈明宇}}).{{cite magazine |last1=Kell |first1=John |title=Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Daughter's Chinese Name |url=http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/facebook-zuckerberg-daughter/ |magazine=Fortune |access-date=February 29, 2016 |date=February 8, 2016 |quote=In a pretty adorable video shared by the tech executive over the weekend, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan said their daughter Max's Chinese name is Chen Mingyu. |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306071741/https://fortune.com/2016/02/08/facebook-zuckerberg-daughter/ |url-status=live }} Their second daughter was born in August 2017.{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg and his wife just unveiled their new baby girl to the world |date=August 28, 2017 |access-date=August 28, 2017 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-just-unveiled-their-new-baby-girl-to-the-world |agency=Fox News |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828205359/http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/28/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-just-unveiled-their-new-baby-girl-to-world.html |url-status=live}} Zuckerberg and his wife welcomed their third daughter in March 2023 and announced the news across his social media pages.{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/parents/mark-zuckerberg-wife-priscilla-chan-welcome-third-baby-girl/|title=Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Priscilla Chan Welcome Baby No. 3, Daughter Aurelia: 'Little Blessing'|magazine=People|first=Georgia|last=Slater|date=March 24, 2023|access-date=March 24, 2023|archive-date=March 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324150910/https://people.com/parents/mark-zuckerberg-wife-priscilla-chan-welcome-third-baby-girl/|url-status=live}} The couple also have a Puli dog named Beast,{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/meet-beast-zuckerberg-your-new-favorite-puli-dog-rug/|title=Meet Beast Zuckerberg, your new favorite dog rug|date=December 7, 2015|publisher=CBS News|access-date=May 9, 2019|archive-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509133833/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/meet-beast-zuckerberg-your-new-favorite-puli-dog-rug/|url-status=live}} who has over two million followers on Facebook.{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/technology/mark-zuckerberg-dog-beast-baby/index.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg's dog Beast is 'moping' over new baby|last=King|first=Hope|date=September 22, 2016|publisher=CNN|access-date=May 9, 2019|archive-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509133834/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/technology/mark-zuckerberg-dog-beast-baby/index.html|url-status=live}} Zuckerberg commissioned the visual artist Daniel Arsham to build a 7-foot-tall sculpture of his wife, which was unveiled in 2024.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx29e0w3gkvo|title=Mark Zuckerberg reveals 'Roman' statue of wife|date=August 14, 2024|work=BBC News|last=Faguy|first=Ana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911191338/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx29e0w3gkvo|archive-date=September 11, 2024|url-status=live}}

=Recognition and public image=

Time named Zuckerberg one of the most influential people in the world in 2008, 2011, 2016, 2019 and 2025, and nominated him as a finalist several other times. He was named the Time Person of the Year in 2010, the same year when Facebook eclipsed more than half a billion users.{{cite magazine |last=Grossman |first=Lev |author-link=Lev Grossman |date=December 15, 2010 |title=Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg |url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817081156/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html |archive-date=August 17, 2013}} He was also included in the Time 100 AI list in 2024.{{Cite magazine|magazine=TIME|title=The 100 most influential people in AI 2024|url=https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/|access-date=September 18, 2024|archive-date=September 18, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240918032539/https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/|url-status=live}} In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People.{{cite magazine|title=The World's Most Powerful People|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2016/12/14/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2016/|magazine=Forbes|date=December 2016|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105224706/https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2016/12/14/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2016/|url-status=live}} In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2023, he was ranked eighth with a personal wealth of $106 billion.{{cite magazine|title=Mark Zuckerberg|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/?list=forbes-400&sh=38e8a1bf3e06|magazine=Forbes|date=October 2023|access-date=October 4, 2023|archive-date=October 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026170415/https://gum.criteo.com/syncframe?origin=publishertag&topUrl=www.forbes.com|url-status=live}} In October 2024, he became the second richest person in the world.{{cite news |title=Zuckerberg Passes Bezos to Become World's Second-Richest Person |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-03/zuckerberg-passes-bezos-to-become-world-s-second-richest-person |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004133345/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-03/zuckerberg-passes-bezos-to-become-world-s-second-richest-person |date=October 3, 2024 |archive-date=October 4, 2024 |access-date=November 6, 2024 |publisher=Bloomberg News |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title= Bloomberg Billionaires Index - Mark Zuckerberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mark-e-zuckerberg/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005073133/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mark-e-zuckerberg/ |date=5 October 2024 |archive-date=October 5, 2024 |access-date=November 11, 2024 |publisher=Bloomberg News}} {{As of|2024|12}}, Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $219 billion by Forbes, making him the fourth richest person in the world.{{cite magazine| url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/?list=rtb%2F&sh=543e10023e06 | title=Mark Zuckerberg | magazine=Forbes | access-date=January 6, 2024 | archive-date=December 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222164110/https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/?list=rtb%2F&sh=543e10023e06 | url-status=live }}

In 2017, Zuckerberg called for action to stop global warming in a commencement speech at Harvard University.{{Cite news |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Mark Zuckerberg's speech as written for Harvard's Class of 2017 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/mark-zuckerbergs-speech-as-written-for-harvards-class-of-2017/ |access-date=November 5, 2024 |work=Harvard Gazette}} Seven years later, he purchased the mega-yacht Launchpad (formerly Project 1010) for $300 million.{{Cite web |first=Christian |last=Hensen |date=March 5, 2024 |title=Facebook-Chef kauft "russische" Mega-Yacht für 300 Millionen US-Dollar – und ein zweites Schiff gleich dazu |trans-title=Facebook boss buys "Russian" mega yacht for 300 million US dollars – and a second ship at the same time |url=https://www.stern.de/auto/mark-zuckerberg-kauft-russische-mega-yacht--launchpad--34516770.html |access-date=November 5, 2024 |website=stern.de |language=de}} That same year, he put the yacht into operation; it emits 40 tons of carbon dioxide per hour.{{Cite web |first=Andrea |last=Bachstein |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Käpt'n Zuckerberg und seine Gigajacht |trans-title=Captain Zuckerberg and his Gigayacht |url=https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/jacht-von-mark-zuckerberg-launchpad-stoesst-40-tonnen-co2-h-aus-552255931606|access-date=November 5, 2024 |website=Tages-Anzeiger |language=de}}

Zuckerberg shifted his style in 2024.{{Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Vanessa |date=April 24, 2024 |title=The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/style/mark-zuckerberg-new-look.html |access-date=January 11, 2025 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite magazine |last=Goode |first=Lauren |title=Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg's Midlife Crisis |url=https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-1-mark-zuckerberg-midlife-crisis/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |magazine=Wired |issn=1059-1028}} Originally known wearing the same gray shirt and jeans in most public appearances, Zuckerberg started wearing gold chains and trendier streetwear.{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Jacob |title=Mark Zuckerberg's New Image: Gold Chains and Gen-Z Curls |url=https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/mark-zuckerberg-meta-gold-chain-outfits-76533bb2 |access-date=January 11, 2025 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}{{Cite news |last=Mahdawi |first=Arwa |date=April 30, 2024 |title=It's Mark Zuckerberg as we've never seen him! But what's really behind the new look? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/mark-zuckerberg-whats-behind-new-look-makeover |access-date=January 11, 2025 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Silberling |first=Amanda |date=2024-05-16 |title=Mark Zuckerberg's makeover: Midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand? |url=https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/mark-zuckerbergs-makeover-midlife-crisis-or-carefully-crafted-rebrand/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |website=TechCrunch}} Writing for Vanity Fair, Kase Wickman described Zuckerberg's "new look" as a "MAGA rebrand", claiming that his change in fashion parallels Meta's efforts to appease the Trump administration.{{Cite magazine |last=Wickman |first=Kase |date=January 8, 2025 |title=Well, Well, It Looks Like Mark Zuckerberg's Wardrobe and Morals Both Got a Lil' MAGA Rebrand |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/mark-zuckerberg-wardrobe-facebook-maga-trump |access-date=January 11, 2025 |magazine=Vanity Fair}} Zuckerberg denied hiring a stylist.{{Cite news |last=Montgomery |first=Blake |date=September 28, 2024 |title=Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta's emperor rebrands in new clothes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/28/mark-zuckeberg-revamps-public-image-style |access-date=January 11, 2025 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}

= Religious beliefs and other interests =

Born and raised in a Reform Jewish household, Zuckerberg later identified himself as an atheist. However, he said in 2016 that, "I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."{{cite news|last=Vara|first=Vauhini|date=November 28, 2007|title=Just How Much Do We Want to Share On Social Networks?|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119621309736406034|access-date=December 30, 2016|archive-date=August 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813163154/http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119621309736406034.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Zauzmer|first=Julie|date=December 30, 2016|title=Mark Zuckerberg says he's no longer an atheist, believes 'religion is very important'|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12/30/mark-zuckerberg-says-hes-no-longer-an-atheist-believes-religion-is-very-important|access-date=October 31, 2019|archive-date=October 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031081908/https://www.washingtonpost.com//news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12/30/mark-zuckerberg-says-hes-no-longer-an-atheist-believes-religion-is-very-important/|url-status=live}} In 2017, he and his wife began a nationwide tour "to visit every state in the union and learn more about a sliver of the nearly two billion people who regularly use the social network". He met with farmers and business owners, and spoke at Mother Emanuel, where a shooting took place in 2015.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-road-trip.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg's great American road trip |newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 25, 2017|last=Isaac|first=Mike| access-date=July 18, 2022|archive-date=July 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718140815/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-road-trip.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news| url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/us/zuckerberg-mother-emanuel-church-trnd/index.html| title=Facebook's Zuckerberg visits Mother Emanuel AME Church|publisher=CNN|date=March 13, 2017|access-date=July 18, 2022| archive-date=July 18, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718140815/https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/us/zuckerberg-mother-emanuel-church-trnd/index.html| url-status=live}}

In 2022, Zuckerberg took up training in both mixed martial arts (MMA) and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), and has been open about his love for the two sports.{{cite magazine | url=https://jitsmagazine.com/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-love-for-bjj-and-mma/ | title=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reveals love for BJJ and MMA | date=August 30, 2022 | access-date=December 21, 2022 |magazine=Jits| archive-date=December 21, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221115951/https://jitsmagazine.com/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-love-for-bjj-and-mma/ | url-status=live }} He competed in a BJJ tournament on May 6, 2023, and won both a silver and gold medal in gi and no gi, competing at white belt.{{cite magazine |last=Burne |first=Kathrine |title=Mark Zuckerberg competes in and wins BJJ tournament |url=https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-competes-in-and-wins-bjj-tournament/ |magazine=Jits|date=May 7, 2023 |access-date=May 7, 2023 |archive-date=May 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507054821/https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-competes-in-and-wins-bjj-tournament/ |url-status=live }} In July 2023, he was promoted to blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu by Dave Camarillo.{{cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Phil |title=Mark Zuckerberg promoted to BJJ blue belt |url=https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-promoted-to-bjj-blue-belt/ |magazine=Jits |date=July 23, 2023 |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723081939/https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-promoted-to-bjj-blue-belt/ |url-status=live }} Four months later, Zuckerberg announced that he was preparing to make his MMA debut but had suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in training that required surgery and had delayed this.{{cite magazine |last=Rogers |first=Kian |title=Mark Zuckerberg undergoes ACL surgery after injury in training for MMA debut |url=https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-undergoes-acl-surgery-after-injury-in-training-for-mma-debut/ |magazine=Jits |date=November 4, 2023 |access-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104093056/https://jitsmagazine.com/mark-zuckerberg-undergoes-acl-surgery-after-injury-in-training-for-mma-debut/ |url-status=live }}