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Mark Zuckerberg

January 19, 2024

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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ/; born (1984-05-14)May 14, 1984) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded the social media service Facebook, along with his Harvard roommates in 2004, and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is executive chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.

Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg in 2019
Born
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

(1984-05-14) May 14, 1984 (age 39)
White Plains, New York, U.S.
Other namesZuck
EducationHarvard University (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • philanthropist
Years active2004–present
Title
Spouse
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(m. 2012)​
Children3
Relatives
Websitefacebook.com/zuck
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Zuckerberg briefly attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Originally launched in only select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users in 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he was the world's youngest self-made billionaire at the time. He has since used his funds to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Time named Zuckerberg one of the most influential people in the world in 2008, 2011, 2016 and 2019, 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.[1] In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People.[2] In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2023, he was ranked eighth with a personal wealth of $106 billion.[3] As of January 2024, Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $132 billion by Forbes, making him the fifth richest person in the world.[4] 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.

Zuckerberg's prominence and fast rise in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention. The founding of Facebook involved Zuckerberg in multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues of user privacy. In 2013, he co-founded the pro-immigration lobbying group FWD.us. 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.

Early life and education

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.[5] He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household[6] in Dobbs Ferry, New York.[7] His great-grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria, Germany, and Poland.[8] Zuckerberg initially attended Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. He was captain of the fencing team.[9][10]

Software development

Early years

Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. In high school, he built a program that allowed all the computers between his house and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.[11][12] 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[13] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[14] The New Yorker once said of Zuckerberg: "some kids played computer games. Mark created them."[7]

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 and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House.[7][15] 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. 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.[16]

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. 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".[16]

Career

Facebook

Further information: Facebook and History of Facebook
External videos
 
  "Mark Zuckerberg's career in 90 seconds | Tech Gurus" via The Daily Telegraph[17]

In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website.[18] 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.[19][20] 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.[20]

 
Zuckerberg in 2005

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.[21] 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,[22] he also broke into two of the editors' email accounts—for which he made use of their private login data logs from TheFacebook.[23][24]

Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.[25] The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares and $20 million in cash.[26]

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.[27] They began with Columbia University, New York University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Yale University.[28]

Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete the project.[29] 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.[30][31] 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."[32] 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.[33]

He restated these goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."[34] Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg had sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie regarding financing strategies for Facebook.[35] On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that Facebook had reached the 500-million-user mark.[36] 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.[34]

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".[37][38] Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.[37] The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.[38] "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."[37]

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.[39] Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".[40] Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009.[41] In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.[42]

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".[43]

 
Zuckerberg and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting at the Russian leader's residence outside Moscow, October 1, 2012

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.[44][45] Russia's communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged the social media giant's founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead consider opening a research center in Moscow. In 2012, Facebook had roughly 9 million users in Russia, while domestic clone VK had around 34 million.[46][47] 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.[48]

On August 19, 2013, The Washington Post reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer.[49]

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.[50][51]

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.[52] 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.[53]

Alongside other American technology figures like 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.[54]

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".[55][56]

Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as CEO of Facebook.[57] 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."[58]

On May 25, 2017, at Harvard's 366th commencement day, Zuckerberg, after giving a commencement speech,[59] received an honorary degree from Harvard.[60][61]

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.[62] 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.[63]

Other projects

 
Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (January 2009)

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.[64][65][66]

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.[67][68]

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.[69]

Controversies and lawsuits

See also: Criticism of Facebook

ConnectU lawsuits

Main article: ConnectU

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).[70] 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.[71]

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. Though Facebook filed to have the documents removed, the judge ruled in favor of 02138.[72]

Eduardo Saverin

Main article: 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 though 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.[73][74]

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.[75][76]

Paul Ceglia

Main article: 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.[77][78]

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.[79] Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia's arrest.[80][81]

Hawaiian land ownership

In January 2017, Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land in the Hawaiian island of Kauai that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014. University of Hawaii law professor Kapua Sproat stated that Zuckerberg's lawsuits were "the face of neocolonialism".[82] 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".[82] 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.[83][84]

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.[85] He called the whole affair a breach of trust between Aleksandr Kogan, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook.[86] Zuckerberg refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a Parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom.[87]

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.[88]

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.[89]

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 like 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.[90]

Depictions in media

The Social Network

Main article: The Social Network
 
Jesse Eisenberg (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."[91] 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".[92] 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".[93] 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?"[94]

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."[95] Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:[96]

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.

On January 29, 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.[97] Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting."[98] 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."[99][100]

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),[101] "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".[102]

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.[7] 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."[102]

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.[103] On October 9, 2010, Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook.[104] Andy Samberg portrayed the role of Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg himself was reported to have been amused: "I thought this was funny."[105]

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".[106] Zuckerberg appeared in the climax of 2013 documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply.[107][108][109] 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".[110]

Philanthropy and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

See also: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
 
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in May 2013

Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation.[111] On September 22, 2010, it was reported that he had donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey.[112][113] 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.[114] 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."[115] 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.[115] The money was largely wasted, according to journalist Dale Russakoff.[116][117]

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.[118] 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.[119][120]

On December 19, 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. On December 31, 2013, the donation was recognized as the largest charitable gift on public record for 2013.[121] 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.[122]

In October 2014, Zuckerberg and his wife donated US$25 million to combat the Ebola virus disease, specifically the West African Ebola virus epidemic.[123][124]

On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to transfer 99% of their Facebook shares, then valued at US$45 billion, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.[125] The funds would not be transferred immediately, but over the course of their lives.[126] 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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative conducts philanthrocapitalism.[127][128][129]

In 2016, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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 like 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.[130][131][132] 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 like bioRxiv.[133][134]

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuckerberg donated $25 million to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that is searching for treatments for the disease.[135] He also 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.[136]

Politics

 
With then President Barack Obama 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.[137][138]

Zuckerberg has never revealed his own political affiliation or voting history: some news outlets consider him to be a conservative,[139] while others consider him liberal.[140]

On February 13, 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for then New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Zuckerberg's particular interest on this occasion was education reform, and Christie's education reform work focused on teachers unions and the expansion of charter schools.[141][142] 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.[143] In September 2010, with the support of Governor Chris Christie, Booker obtained a US$100 million pledge from Zuckerberg to Newark Public Schools.[144] 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.[145][146]

 
With then Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in April 2015

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.[147][148][149][150] 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,[151][152] 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.[153] 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 pull their Facebook ad buys or not buy Facebook ads for at least two weeks, in protest of Zuckerberg 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.[clarification needed][154]

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."[155]

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.[156][157]

 
With then President Donald Trump at the White House in September 2019

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.[50]

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.[158][159][160][161] 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."[162][163]

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.[164][165][166] 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."[164]

In January 2017, he criticized Donald Trump's executive order to severely limit immigrants and refugees from some countries.[167] Zuckerberg 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.[168]

Personal life

Marriage and children

 
With his wife, Priscilla Chan, in 2014

Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan, at a frat party during his sophomore year there. They began dating in 2003.[169][170] In September 2010, Chan, who was by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco,[171] moved into Zuckerberg's rented house in Palo Alto, California.[172][173] On May 19, 2012, they married in the grounds of his mansion in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.[174][175][176] On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg revealed they were expecting a baby girl and that Chan had previously experienced three miscarriages.[177] Their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, was born on December 1, 2015.[178][179] They announced in a Chinese New Year video that their daughter's Chinese name is Chen Mingyu (Chinese: 陈明宇).[180] Their second daughter, August, was born in August 2017.[181] Zuckerberg and his wife welcomed their third daughter Aurelia on March 24, 2023, and announced the news across his social media pages.[182] The couple also have a Puli dog named Beast,[183] who has over two million followers on Facebook.[184]

Religious beliefs and other interests

Raised as a Reform Jew, Zuckerberg later identified 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."[9][185][186] In 2017, Zuckerberg 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.[187][188]

In an August 2022 appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Zuckerberg said one of his biggest regrets was competing on the fencing team in high school instead of wrestling. Motherboard implicitly criticized this by comparing it to another potential regret: Facebook's "enabling genocide in Myanmar because it did not bother to hire moderators who speak Burmese",[189] an incident for which Zuckerberg apologized at the time.[190] In the same interview, he also said he regretted that Facebook had throttled posts about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.[191]

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.[192] 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.[193] On July 22, 2023, Zuckerberg was promoted to blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu by Dave Camarillo.[194] 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.[195]

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mark, zuckerberg, zuckerberg, redirects, here, other, uses, zuckerberg, disambiguation, mark, elliot, zuckerberg, ɜːr, born, 1984, 1984, american, businessman, philanthropist, founded, social, media, service, facebook, along, with, harvard, roommates, 2004, pa. Zuckerberg redirects here For other uses see Zuckerberg disambiguation Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ˈ z ʌ k er b ɜːr ɡ born 1984 05 14 May 14 1984 is an American businessman and philanthropist He co founded the social media service Facebook along with his Harvard roommates in 2004 and its parent company Meta Platforms formerly Facebook Inc of which he is executive chairman chief executive officer and controlling shareholder Mark ZuckerbergZuckerberg in 2019BornMark Elliot Zuckerberg 1984 05 14 May 14 1984 age 39 White Plains New York U S Other namesZuckEducationHarvard University dropped out OccupationsBusinessmanphilanthropistYears active2004 presentTitleCo founder executive chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms formerly Facebook Inc Co founder and co CEO of Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeSpousePriscilla Chan m 2012 wbr Children3RelativesRandi Zuckerberg sister Donna Zuckerberg sister Websitefacebook wbr com wbr zuckSignatureZuckerberg briefly attended Harvard University where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes Originally launched in only select college campuses the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges reaching one billion users in 2012 Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares In 2007 at age 23 he was the world s youngest self made billionaire at the time He has since used his funds to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Time named Zuckerberg one of the most influential people in the world in 2008 2011 2016 and 2019 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 1 In December 2016 Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the World s Most Powerful People 2 In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2023 he was ranked eighth with a personal wealth of 106 billion 3 As of January 2024 update Zuckerberg s net worth was estimated at 132 billion by Forbes making him the fifth richest person in the world 4 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 Zuckerberg s prominence and fast rise in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention The founding of Facebook involved Zuckerberg in multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues of user privacy In 2013 he co founded the pro immigration lobbying group FWD us 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 Contents 1 Early life and education 1 1 Software development 1 1 1 Early years 1 1 2 College years 2 Career 2 1 Facebook 2 2 Other projects 3 Controversies and lawsuits 3 1 ConnectU lawsuits 3 2 Eduardo Saverin 3 3 Pakistan criminal investigation 3 4 Paul Ceglia 3 5 Hawaiian land ownership 3 6 Testimony before U S Congress 3 7 Meta s proposal 4 Depictions in media 4 1 The Social Network 4 1 1 Disputed accuracy 4 2 Other depictions 5 Philanthropy and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 6 Politics 7 Personal life 7 1 Marriage and children 7 2 Religious beliefs and other interests 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and educationMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14 1984 in White Plains New York to psychiatrist Karen nee Kempner and dentist Edward Zuckerberg 5 He and his three sisters Arielle Randi and Donna were raised in a Reform Jewish household 6 in Dobbs Ferry New York 7 His great grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria Germany and Poland 8 Zuckerberg initially attended Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy He was captain of the fencing team 9 10 Software development Early years Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school In high school he built a program that allowed all the computers between his house and his father s dental office to communicate with each other 11 12 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 13 and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine 14 The New Yorker once said of Zuckerberg some kids played computer games Mark created them 7 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 and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House 7 15 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 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 16 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 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 16 CareerFacebook Further information Facebook and History of Facebook External videos nbsp nbsp Mark Zuckerberg s career in 90 seconds Tech Gurus via The Daily Telegraph 17 In January 2004 Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website 18 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 19 20 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 20 nbsp Zuckerberg in 2005Six 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 21 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 22 he also broke into two of the editors email accounts for which he made use of their private login data logs from TheFacebook 23 24 Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement 25 The agreed settlement was for 1 2 million Facebook shares and 20 million in cash 26 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 27 They began with Columbia University New York University Stanford University Dartmouth College Cornell University University of Pennsylvania Brown University and Yale University 28 Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete the project 29 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 30 31 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 32 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 33 He restated these goals to Wired magazine in 2010 The thing I really care about is the mission making the world open 34 Earlier in April 2009 Zuckerberg had sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie regarding financing strategies for Facebook 35 On July 21 2010 Zuckerberg reported that Facebook had reached the 500 million user mark 36 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 34 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 37 38 Facebook instituted hackathons held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project 37 The company provided music food and beer at the hackathons and many Facebook staff members including Zuckerberg regularly attended 38 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 37 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 39 Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 most influential people of the Information Age 40 Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009 41 In 2010 Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman s annual survey of the world s 50 most influential figures 42 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 43 nbsp Zuckerberg and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting at the Russian leader s residence outside Moscow October 1 2012On 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 44 45 Russia s communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged the social media giant s founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead consider opening a research center in Moscow In 2012 Facebook had roughly 9 million users in Russia while domestic clone VK had around 34 million 46 47 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 48 On August 19 2013 The Washington Post reported that Zuckerberg s Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer 49 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 50 51 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 52 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 53 Alongside other American technology figures like 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 amp 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 54 Zuckerberg fielded questions during a live Q amp 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 55 56 Zuckerberg receives a one dollar salary as CEO of Facebook 57 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 58 On May 25 2017 at Harvard s 366th commencement day Zuckerberg after giving a commencement speech 59 received an honorary degree from Harvard 60 61 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 62 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 63 Other projects nbsp Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland January 2009 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 64 65 66 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 67 68 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 69 Controversies and lawsuitsSee also Criticism of Facebook ConnectU lawsuits Main article ConnectU 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 70 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 71 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 Though Facebook filed to have the documents removed the judge ruled in favor of 02138 72 Eduardo Saverin Main article 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 though 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 73 74 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 75 76 Paul Ceglia Main article 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 77 78 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 79 Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia s arrest 80 81 Hawaiian land ownership In January 2017 Zuckerberg filed eight quiet title and partition lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned This land is contained within the 700 acres of land in the Hawaiian island of Kauai that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014 University of Hawaii law professor Kapua Sproat stated that Zuckerberg s lawsuits were the face of neocolonialism 82 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 82 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 83 84 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 85 He called the whole affair a breach of trust between Aleksandr Kogan Cambridge Analytica and Facebook 86 Zuckerberg refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a Parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom 87 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 88 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 89 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 like 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 90 Depictions in mediaThe Social Network Main article The Social Network nbsp Jesse Eisenberg 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 91 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 92 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 93 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 94 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 95 Sorkin who won for Best Screenplay retracted some of the impressions given in his script 96 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 On January 29 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 97 Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg who had been critical of his portrayal by the film what he thought of the movie Zuckerberg replied It was interesting 98 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 99 100 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 101 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 102 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 7 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 102 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 103 On October 9 2010 Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook 104 Andy Samberg portrayed the role of Zuckerberg Zuckerberg himself was reported to have been amused I thought this was funny 105 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 106 Zuckerberg appeared in the climax of 2013 documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply 107 108 109 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 110 Philanthropy and Chan Zuckerberg InitiativeSee also Chan Zuckerberg Initiative nbsp Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in May 2013Zuckerberg founded the Start up Education foundation 111 On September 22 2010 it was reported that he had donated 100 million to Newark Public Schools the public school system of Newark New Jersey 112 113 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 114 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 115 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 115 The money was largely wasted according to journalist Dale Russakoff 116 117 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 118 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 119 120 On December 19 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 On December 31 2013 the donation was recognized as the largest charitable gift on public record for 2013 121 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 122 In October 2014 Zuckerberg and his wife donated US 25 million to combat the Ebola virus disease specifically the West African Ebola virus epidemic 123 124 On December 1 2015 Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to transfer 99 of their Facebook shares then valued at US 45 billion to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 125 The funds would not be transferred immediately but over the course of their lives 126 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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative conducts philanthrocapitalism 127 128 129 In 2016 the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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 like 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 130 131 132 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 like bioRxiv 133 134 Amidst the COVID 19 pandemic Zuckerberg donated 25 million to a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backed accelerator that is searching for treatments for the disease 135 He also 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 136 Politics nbsp With then President Barack Obama before a private meeting between Obama and technology business leaders in February 2011In 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 137 138 Zuckerberg has never revealed his own political affiliation or voting history some news outlets consider him to be a conservative 139 while others consider him liberal 140 On February 13 2013 Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for then New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Zuckerberg s particular interest on this occasion was education reform and Christie s education reform work focused on teachers unions and the expansion of charter schools 141 142 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 143 In September 2010 with the support of Governor Chris Christie Booker obtained a US 100 million pledge from Zuckerberg to Newark Public Schools 144 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 145 146 nbsp With then Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in April 2015On 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 147 148 149 150 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 151 152 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 153 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 pull their Facebook ad buys or not buy Facebook ads for at least two weeks in protest of Zuckerberg 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 clarification needed 154 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 155 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 156 157 nbsp With then President Donald Trump at the White House in September 2019When 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 50 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 158 159 160 161 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 162 163 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 164 165 166 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 164 In January 2017 he criticized Donald Trump s executive order to severely limit immigrants and refugees from some countries 167 Zuckerberg 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 168 Personal lifeMarriage and children nbsp With his wife Priscilla Chan in 2014Zuckerberg met his future wife fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan at a frat party during his sophomore year there They began dating in 2003 169 170 In September 2010 Chan who was by then a medical student at the University of California San Francisco 171 moved into Zuckerberg s rented house in Palo Alto California 172 173 On May 19 2012 they married in the grounds of his mansion in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school 174 175 176 On July 31 2015 Zuckerberg revealed they were expecting a baby girl and that Chan had previously experienced three miscarriages 177 Their daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg was born on December 1 2015 178 179 They announced in a Chinese New Year video that their daughter s Chinese name is Chen Mingyu Chinese 陈明宇 180 Their second daughter August was born in August 2017 181 Zuckerberg and his wife welcomed their third daughter Aurelia on March 24 2023 and announced the news across his social media pages 182 The couple also have a Puli dog named Beast 183 who has over two million followers on Facebook 184 Religious beliefs and other interests Raised as a Reform Jew Zuckerberg later identified 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 9 185 186 In 2017 Zuckerberg and his wife began a nationwide tour to visit every state in 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