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| name = Mark Zuckerberg
| image = Mark Zuckerberg F8 2018 Keynote (cropped).jpg
| alt = Mark Zuckerberg
| caption = Zuckerberg in April 2018
| birth_name = Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|05|14}}
| birth_place = [[White Plains, New York]], U.S.
| residence = [[Palo Alto, California]], U.S.
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| occupation = {{hlist|Technology entrepreneur|philanthropist}}
| years_active = 2004–present
| home_town = [[Dobbs Ferry, New York]], U.S.
| salary = [[One-dollar salary]]<ref name="$1Club"/>
| net_worth = <!--No increase/decrease symbol-->[[United States dollar|US$]]56.4 billion<ref name=NetWorth/> (November 2018)
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Priscilla Chan (philanthropist)|Priscilla Chan]]|2012}}<!--Do not insert "Dr." Per WP:CREDENTIAL-->
| children = 2
| relatives = [[Randi Zuckerberg]] (sister), [[Donna Zuckerberg]] (sister)
| website = {{URL|facebook.com/zuck}}
| signature = Mark Zuckerberg Signature.svg
| known = Co-founding and leading [[Facebook]]
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'''Mark Elliot Zuckerberg''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ʌ|k|ər|b|ɜr|g}}; born May 14, 1984) is an American [[List of Internet entrepreneurs|technology entrepreneur]] and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading [[Facebook]] as its chairman and [[chief executive officer]].<ref name=FBM>{{cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-surges-mark-zuckerberg-pockets-3-8-billion-143114560.html|publisher=Yahoo! Finance|title=Facebook Surges and Mark Zuckerberg Pockets $3.8 Billion|first=Bernice|last=Napach |date=July 26, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120517 |title=Facebook shareholders are wedded to the whims of Mark Zuckerberg |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik |date=May 20, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202155638/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120517 |archivedate=December 2, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
Born in [[White Plains, New York]], Zuckerberg attended [[Harvard University]], where he launched Facebook from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates [[Eduardo Saverin]], [[Andrew McCollum]], [[Dustin Moskovitz]], and [[Chris Hughes]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 |title=At Last – The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded|work=Business Insider|first=Nicholas|last=Carlson|date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. His [[net worth]] is estimated to be [[United States dollar|US$]]61.4 billion as of October 19, 2018, declining over the last year with Facebook stock as a whole.<ref>url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mark-e-zuckerberg/|title=Mark Zuckerberg, Bloomberg Billionaires Index</ref>
Since 2010, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its [[Time Person of the Year|Person of the Year]] award.<ref name="NetWorth">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/|title=Mark Zuckerberg|work=Forbes}}</ref><ref name=POTY>{{cite news|first=Lev|last=Grossman|authorlink=Lev Grossman|url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html|title=Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg|date=December 15, 2010|work=Time|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817081156/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html|archivedate=August 17, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time|url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269_2112278,00.html|access-date=April 20, 2012|newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=April 18, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419230619/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269_2112278,00.html|archivedate=April 19, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on [[Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People|''Forbes'' list of The World's Most Powerful People]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The World's Most Powerful People|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2016/12/14/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2016/|newspaper=Forbes|date=December 2016|access-date=December 14, 2016}}</ref>
==Early life==
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in [[White Plains, New York]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Jasmine|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mark-zuckerberg/8204697/Mark-Zuckerberg-wins-Time-person-of-the-year-profile.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg wins Time person of the year: profile|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 15, 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> His parents are Karen (née Kempner), a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist.<ref>{{citation|title=The Zuckerbergs of Dobbs Ferry|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/zuckerberg-family-2012-5/index1.html|magazine=New York |issue=May 14, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> He and his three sisters, [[Randi Zuckerberg|Randi]], Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in [[Dobbs Ferry, New York]], a small [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] village about 21 miles north of [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref name="NEWYORKER2010">{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas|title=The Face of Facebook|work=The New Yorker|date=September 20, 2010 |author=Vargas, Jose Antonio}}</ref> Zuckerberg was raised in a [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jewish]] household,<ref name=Haartez>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zuckerbergs-curated-jewish-conscience-is-shallow-and-evasive-1.5455322|newspaper=Haartez|title=Mark Zuckerberg's Carefully Curated Jewish Conscience Is Both Shallow and Evasive|first=Anshel|last=Pfeffer|date=October 4, 2017|accessdate=May 12, 2018}}</ref> with ancestors hailing from Germany, Austria and Poland.<ref>{{cite news|last=Zuckerberg|first=Mark|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103460278231481|title=My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria, and Poland.|newspaper=Facebook|date=January 27, 2017|location=PaloAlto}}</ref> He had a ''[[Star Wars]]'' themed [[Bar Mitzvah]] when he turned 13<ref name=Haartez/><ref>{{cite news|last=Burrell|first=Ian|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mark-zuckerberg-hes-got-the-whole-world-on-his-site-2034134.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg: He's got the whole world on his site|work=The Independent|location=UK|date=July 24, 2010|access-date=November 6, 2010}}</ref> and once "questioned things" before deciding "religion is very important".<ref name="wapo-12302016" />
At [[Ardsley High School]], Zuckerberg excelled in classes. He transferred to the private school [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], in New Hampshire, in his junior year, where he won prizes in science (mathematics, astronomy, and physics) and classical studies. In his youth, he also attended the [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] [[Center for Talented Youth]] summer camp. On his college application, Zuckerberg stated that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek. He was captain of the fencing team.<ref name=Kirkpatrick>{{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#v=onepage&q&f=false|access-date=November 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="whatwelearned">{{Cite news |first=Caitlin |last=McDevitt |title=What We Learned About Mark Zuckerberg This Week |date=March 5, 2010 |url=http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/facebook-status/2010/03/05/what-we-learned-about-mark-zuckerberg-week |work=The Big Money|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Software developer==
===Early years===
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in [[middle school]]. His father taught him [[Atari]] [[BASIC Programming]] in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at [[Mercy College (New York)|Mercy College]] near his home while still in high school. In one program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet" that allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate with each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of [[AOL]]'s [[Instant messaging|Instant Messenger]], which came out the following year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.letsintern.com/blog/4-thing-mark-zuckerberg/ |title=4-thing-mark-zuckerberg | access-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://learni.st/users/jacobrwheeler/boards/83006-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-child-prodigy |title=facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-child-prodigy | access-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref>
According to writer [[Jose Antonio Vargas]], "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical "geek-klutz", as he later became captain of his prep school [[fencing]] team and earned a classics diploma. [[Napster]] co-founder [[Sean Parker]], a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg was "really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff", recalling how he once quoted lines from the Roman epic poem ''[[Aeneid]]'', by [[Virgil]], during a Facebook product conference.<ref name="NEWYORKER2010" />
During Zuckerberg's high school years, he worked under the company name Intelligent Media Group 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]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/21/110236.shtml |title=Machine Learning and MP3s |author=Hemos/Dan Moore |date=April 21, 2003 |work=Slashdot|access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref> and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from ''[[PC Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1748374,00.asp |title=Synapse Media Player Review |first=Troy |last=Dreier |date=February 8, 2005 |work=PC Magazine |access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref>
===College years===
[[File:MarkZuckerberg-crop.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Zuckerberg in 2005]]
Vargas noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at [[Harvard]], 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]].<ref name = POTY /><ref name="NEWYORKER2010" /><ref>{{citation |title=Mark Zuckerberg speaks at BYU, calls Facebook "as much psychology and sociology as it is technology" |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700121651/Mark-Zuckerberg-speaks-at-BYU-calls-Facebook-as-much-psychology-and-sociology-as-it-is-technology.html|first=Chase |last=Larson |work=Deseret News |date=March 25, 2011|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> In his [[sophomore]] 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 also to help them form study groups. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called [[History of Facebook#Facemash|Facemash]] that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. According to Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, "he built the site for fun". Hasit explains:
<blockquote>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.<ref name=Hasit>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/facebook-founder-s-roommate-recounts-creation-of-internet-giant-1.275748 |title=Facebook founder's roommate recounts creation of Internet giant |work=Haaretz |date=Oct 5, 2009}}</ref></blockquote>
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 switch]]es and prevented 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."<ref name=Hasit />
The following semester, in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new Web site.<ref name="Hoffman, Claire">{{Cite news |access-date=February 5, 2009 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |title=The Battle for Facebook |newspaper=Rolling Stone |location=New York |date=June 28, 2008 |author=Hoffman, Claire |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703220456/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |archivedate=July 3, 2008 |deadurl=yes}}</ref> On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.<ref name="skepticism">{{Cite news|access-date=April 30, 2008 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118539991204578084 |title=Judge Expresses Skepticism About Facebook Lawsuit |work=The Wall Street Journal |location=New York |date=July 25, 2007 |author=Seward, Zachary M.}}</ref>
Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, [[Cameron Winklevoss]], [[Tyler Winklevoss]], and [[Divya Narendra]], accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called [[ConnectU|HarvardConnection.com]], while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.<ref name="zuckerberghacked">{{Cite news |first=Nicolas |last=Carlson |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account |date=March 5, 2010 |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |work=Business Insider |access-date =March 5, 2010}}</ref> The three complained to ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', and the newspaper began an investigation in response.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.<ref name=nytb>{{Cite news |work=New York Times blog |url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/judge-ends-facebooks-feud-with-connectu/index.html |date=June 28, 2008 |title=Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU |author=Stone, Brad}}</ref> The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune |title=Facebook IPO sees Winklevoss twins heading for $300m fortune |date=February 2, 2012 |location=London |work=The Guardian |first=Dominic |last=Rushe}}</ref>
Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete his project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1109/Mark-Zuckerberg-Harvard-dropout-returns-to-open-arms |title=Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout, returns to open arms |publisher=CS Monitor |date=November 9, 2011}}</ref> In January 2014, he recalled:
<blockquote>I remember really vividly, you know, having pizza with my friends a day or two after—I opened up the first version of Facebook at the time I thought, "You know, someone needs to build a service like this for the world." But I just never thought that we'd be the ones to help do it. And I think a lot of what it comes down to is we just cared more.<ref>{{cite web |title=As Mark Zuckerberg Turns 30, His 10 Best Quotes as CEO |url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233890?newsletter=true |work=Entrepreneur |publisher=Entrepreneur Media, Inc|access-date=16 May 2014 |first=Jason |last=Fell |date=14 May 2014}}</ref></blockquote>
On May 28, 2017, Zuckerberg received an [[honorary degree]] from Harvard.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steinbock |first1=Anna |title=Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-awards-10-honorary-degrees-at-366th-commencement/ |accessdate=May 25, 2017 |work=[[Harvard Gazette]] |date=May 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pppfocus.com/2017/05/28/13-years-after-quitting-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-gets-honorary-harvard-degree/ |title=13 YEARS AFTER QUITTING, FACEBOOK CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG GETS HONORARY HARVARD DEGREE |publisher=PPP Focus |date=May 28, 2017}}</ref>
==Career==
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===Facebook===
{{Main|Facebook|History of Facebook}}
On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.<ref name="rww051009">{{cite web |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 |work=ReadWrite Social |publisher=SAY Media, Inc|access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Steffan |last=Antonas |date=May 10, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201185222/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php |archivedate=February 1, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=Exeter>{{cite web |title=Face-to-Face with Mark Zuckerberg '02 |url=http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_5594.aspx |work=Phillips Exeter Academy |publisher=Phillips Exeter Academy|access-date=March 26, 2013 |date=January 24, 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref name="rww051009" />
Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate [[Dustin Moskovitz]]. They began with [[Columbia University]], [[New York University]], [[Stanford University|Stanford]], [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]], [[Cornell University|Cornell]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Brown University|Brown]], and [[Yale University|Yale]].<ref>
*{{cite news |title=Thefacebook.com's darker side |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side |first=Chris |last=Holt |date=March 10, 2004 |work=[[The Stanford Daily]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614061858/http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side/ |archivedate=June 14, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}
*{{cite web |title=Online network created by Harvard students flourishes |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/2.5541/1.600318 |work=The Tufts Daily |publisher=College Media Network |access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Lananh |last=Nguyen |date=April 12, 2004 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6KOZTvFwU?url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/11/facebook-opens-up-cx_rr_0911facebook.html |archivedate=October 15, 2013 |df=}}
*{{cite web |title=Thefacebook.com opens to Duke students |url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2004/04/14/thefacebookcom-opens-duke-students |work=The Chronicle |publisher=Duke Student Publishing Company |access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Emily |last=Rotberg |date=April 14, 2004}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/node/41990 |title=Students flock to join college online facebook |work=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825022008/http://thedp.com/node/41990 |archivedate=August 25, 2011}}</ref> [[Samyr Laine]], a [[triple jump]]er representing [[Haiti]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], shared a room with Zuckerberg during Facebook's founding. "Mark was clearly on to great things," said Laine, who was Facebook's fourteenth user.<ref>{{cite news |title=Zuckerberg's Roomie Aims to Win for Haiti |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443659204577572852311606434 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 7, 2012 |author=Alice Speri}}</ref>
Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and some friends moved to [[Palo Alto, California]] in [[Silicon Valley]] where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met [[Peter Thiel]], who invested in the 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]]s is just not an attractive idea to me."<ref name=Exeter />
He restated these goals to ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."<ref name="wired-zuckerberg" /> Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former [[Netscape]] CFO [[Peter Currie (businessman)|Peter Currie]] about financing strategies for Facebook.<ref name=twsOctBPP>{{cite news |title=Yu, Zuckerberg and the Facebook fallout |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout/|access-date=March 26, 2013 |agency=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.}}</ref> On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.<ref>{{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}}</ref> When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:
<blockquote>I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average [[Search engine marketing|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.<ref name="wired-zuckerberg" /></blockquote>
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 culture|hacker]]". Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better".<ref name="wired041910">{{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 |work=Wired |date=April 19, 2010 |author=Levy, Steven}}</ref><ref name="fast092410">{{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}}</ref> Facebook instituted "[[hackathon]]s" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.<ref name="wired041910" /> The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.<ref name="fast092410" /> "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."<ref name="wired041910" />
''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the [[Information Age]]".<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=1 |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |work=Vanity Fair |date=October 2010}}</ref> Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the ''Vanity Fair'' 100 list in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/new-establishment200910?currentPage=all |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |work=Vanity Fair |date=September 1, 2010}}</ref> In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in ''[[New Statesman]]''{{'}}s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.<ref name="htanna">{{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}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{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 |work=Bloomberg |date=November 7, 2011 |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Medvedev and Zuckerberg October 2012-1.jpeg|thumb|Zuckerberg and Russian President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] during their meeting at the Russian leader's residence outside [[Moscow]], October 1, 2012]]
On October 1, 2012, Zuckerberg visited [[Russia]]n Prime Minister [[Dmitry Medvedev]] in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook's position in the Russian market.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zuckerberg in Moscow to boost Facebook's presence |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20121001-zuckerberg-moscow-boost-facebooks-presence-0 |publisher=France 24 |date=October 1, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003232618/http://www.france24.com/en/20121001-zuckerberg-moscow-boost-facebooks-presence-0 |archivedate=October 3, 2012 |df=}}</ref> 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 (social networking)|VK]] had around 34 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russia pushes Facebook to open research center |url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/01/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |publisher=Fox News |date=October 1, 2012}}</ref> Rebecca Van Dyck, Facebook's head of consumer marketing, claimed that 85 million American Facebook users were exposed to the first day of the Home promotional campaign on April 6, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |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/ |work=Ad Age digital |publisher=Crain Communications|access-date=April 18, 2013 |first=Cotton |last=Delo |date=April 16, 2013}}</ref>
On August 19, 2013, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
At the 2013 [[TechCrunch#TechCrunch Disrupt|TechCrunch Disrupt]] conference, held in September, Zuckerberg stated that he is working towards registering the 5 billion humans 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.<ref name="Six">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Sew">{{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}}</ref>
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, claiming that mobile represents the future of the company.<ref>
*{{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}}
*{{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}}
*{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 |work=''BBC News''|date=February 22, 2014 |author=Mark Gregory}}</ref>
Alongside other American technology figures like [[Jeff Bezos]] and [[Tim Cook]], Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician [[Lu Wei (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 attempted to converse in [[Standard Chinese|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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".<ref name="Tad">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Sam">{{cite web |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 |website=''Inc.'' |publisher=Monsueto Ventures|access-date=December 14, 2014 |date=December 12, 2014}}</ref>
Zuckerberg receives a [[one-dollar salary]] as CEO of Facebook.<ref name="$1Club">{{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}}</ref> 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 — which is estimated at over $52.1 billion."<ref>{{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 |publisher=Business Insider Inc.}}</ref>
===Wirehog===
{{Main|Wirehog}}
A month after Zuckerberg launched Facebook in February 2004, [[i2hub]], another campus-only service, created by [[Wayne Chang]], was launched. i2hub focused on [[peer-to-peer]] file sharing. 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.<ref>{{Cite news |publisher=Martey Dodoo |url=http://www.marteydodoo.com/2004/08/16/wirehog/ |date=August 16, 2004 |title=Wirehog? |author=Martey Dodoo}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
===Platform, Beacon, and Connect===
[[File:Mark Zuckerberg, World Economic Forum 2009 Annual Meeting.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Waist high portrait of man in his twenties, looking into the camera and gesturing with both hands, wearing a black pullover shirt that says "The North Face" and wearing identification on a white band hanging from his neck|Zuckerberg at the [[World Economic Forum]] in [[Davos]], Switzerland (January 2009).]]
On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced [[Facebook Platform]], a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |title=80000 developers |access-date=April 21, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324022748/http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |archivedate=March 24, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Beacon, a social advertising system that enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, [[eBay]] sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they listed items for sale. The program came under scrutiny because of privacy concerns from groups and individual users. Zuckerberg and Facebook failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on December 5, 2007, Zuckerberg wrote a blog post on Facebook,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130 |title=The Facebook Blog | Facebook |publisher=Blog.facebook.com |access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref> taking responsibility for the concerns about Beacon and offering an easier way for users to opt out of the service.
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=635 |title=2007 Young Innovators Under 35: Mark Zuckerberg, 23 |publisher=[[MIT Technology Review]] |year=2007 | access-date=August 14, 2011}}</ref> On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced [[Facebook Platform#Facebook Connect|Facebook Connect]], a version of Facebook Platform for users.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
===Internet.org===
In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg launched the [[Free Basics|Internet.org]] project in late August 2013. He explained that the primary aim of the initiative is to provide Internet access to the five billion people who are not connected as of the launch date. Using a three-tier strategy, Internet.org will also create new jobs and open up new markets, according to Zuckerberg. He stated in his post:
<blockquote>The world economy is going through a massive transition right now. The knowledge economy is the future. By bringing everyone online, we'll not only improve billions of lives, but we'll also improve our own as we benefit from the ideas and productivity they contribute to the world. Giving everyone the opportunity to connect is the foundation for enabling the knowledge economy. It is not the only thing we need to do, but it's a fundamental and necessary step.<ref name="Sew" /></blockquote>
To stay proven on the efforts of bringing in the concept of [[net neutrality]], Zuckerberg met [[Narendra Modi]], [[Satya Nadella]] and [[Sundar Pichai]] at Silicon Valley, to discuss on how to effectively establish affordable [[internet]] access to the less developed countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/at-facebook-we-also-believe-in-net-neutrality-very-strongly-mark-zuckerberg/ |title=Meet at the Silicon Valley among the tech leaders and Indian Prime Minister-Narendra Modi|access-date= October 9, 2015}}</ref> As a token of initiation, he changed his Facebook profile picture to extend his support to the [[Digital India]] to help the rural communities to stay connected to the internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102393263811931&set=a.743613136151.2308566.4&type=3&permPage=1 |title=Mark Zuckerberg supports Digital India|access-date= October 9, 2015}}</ref>
===Legal controversies===
{{Main|Criticism of Facebook}}
====ConnectU lawsuits====
{{Main|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]]).<ref>{{cite web |first=Nicholas |last=Carlson |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account |publisher=Silicon Alley Insider|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> They filed a lawsuit in 2004, but it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts|federal court]] in [[Boston]]. Facebook countersued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by [[i2hub#The Winklevoss Chang Group|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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. Facebook filed to have the documents removed, but the judge ruled in favor of ''02138''.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Caroline |url=http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827222-36.html?tag=cd.blog |title=article about 02138 |publisher=News.com |date=November 30, 2007|access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref>
====Saverin lawsuit====
A lawsuit filed by [[Eduardo Saverin]] against Facebook and Zuckerberg was settled out of court. Though terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook. Saverin signed a non-disclosure contract after the settlement.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |title=The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read |publisher=CNN |first=Jessi |last=Hempel |date=July 25, 2009 |access-date=May 21, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914024405/http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |archivedate=September 14, 2010 |df=}}</ref>
====Pakistan criminal investigation====
In June 2010, [[Pakistan]]i Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders [[Dustin Moskovitz]] and [[Chris Hughes]] after a "[[Everybody Draw Mohammed Day|Draw Muhammad]]" contest was hosted on Facebook. The investigation 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 law|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]].<ref>{{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 |publisher=NBC Bay Area|access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan |title=Zuckerberg faces criminal investigation in Pakistan }}</ref>
====Paul Ceglia====
{{Main|Paul Ceglia}}
In June 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood [[pellet fuel]] company in [[Allegany County, New York|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 of Facebook, but did not register the domain name ''thefacebook.com'' until January 1, 2004. 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/article/20100729/NEWS/307299940 |title=Facebook does not have a like button for Ceglia |author=Anderson, John |publisher=WellsvilleDaily.com |date=July 29, 2010|access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2010/07/20/zuckerberg-ceglia |title=Venture beat coverage of Ceglia lawsuit}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia's arrest.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
====Palestinian terror attacks====
On July 2, 2016, Israeli cabinet minister [[Gilad Erdan]] accused Zuckerberg of having some responsibility for deadly [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|attacks by Palestinians]] against Israelis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/israel-minister-facebook-zuckerberg-blood-hands-over-teenager-settlement-477399 |title=Israeli minister accused facebook and its founder |newspaper=Newsweek|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref> According to him, the social network was not doing enough to ban posts to its platform that incite violence against Israelis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/685709/Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-Israel-Palestine-terrorists |title=Mark Zuckerberg is facing claims that Facebook is not helping Israel crack down on terror |newspaper=Express|access-date=July 3, 2016}}</ref> "Some of the victims' blood is on Zuckerberg's hands", Erdan said.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-has-terror-victims-blood-his-hands-israeli-minister-says-1568729 |title=Mark Zuckerberg has terror victim's 'blood on his hands', Israeli minister says |newspaper=International Business Times|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref>
====Hawaiian land ownership====
In January 2017, Zuckerberg filed eight "[[quiet title]] and [[Partition (law)|partition]]" lawsuits against hundreds of [[native Hawaiians]] to purchase small tracts of land which they own. This land is contained within the 700 [[acre]]s of land in the Hawaiian island of [[Kauai]] that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014. When he learned that Hawaiian [[Property law|land ownership law]] differs from that of the other 49 states, he dropped the lawsuits.<ref>[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-hawaii-land-lawsuit Mark Zuckerberg hits back at 'misleading' claims he is suing Hawaiian landowners], Wired, January 20, 2017</ref><ref>[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"], ''Pacific Business News'', February 26, 2017</ref>
=== Testimony before U.S. Congress===
On April 10 and April 11, 2018, Zuckerberg began testifying 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|Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data breach]].<ref>{{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 {{!}} United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref> He has called the whole affair a breach of trust between [[Aleksandr Kogan]], [[Cambridge Analytica]], and Facebook.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071|title=MArk Zuckerberg Facebook Post|publisher=Facebook|date=28 April 2018}}</ref> Zuckerberg has refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliamentary]] committee in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43554135]</ref>
==Depictions in media==
===''The Social Network''===
{{Main|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."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=June 26, 2010 |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html?tag=mncol;title |title=Zuckerberg in the hot seat at D8 |publisher=CNET |date=June 2, 2010 |author=Fried, Ina}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{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 |work=The Times |date=May 16, 2010 |author=Harlow, John |location=London}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{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 |work=The New York Times |date=August 20, 2010 |author1=Cieply, Michael |author2=Helft, Miguel |lastauthoramp=yes}}</ref> The film's screenwriter [[Aaron Sorkin]] told [[New York (magazine)|''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?"<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319 |title=Inventing Facebook |publisher=New York |date=September 17, 2010 |author=Harris, Mark}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://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}}</ref> Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://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}}</ref>
: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 being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they ever met.<ref>{{cite web|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 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=January 30, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131034819/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462104,00.html |archivedate=January 31, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting."<ref>{{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}}</ref> In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg explains that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now, a year and a half thinking about him ..." He adds, "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."<ref>[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"] ''Popsugar'', February 7, 2011</ref><ref>[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"] NPR, January 30, 2011</ref>
====Disputed accuracy====
Jeff Jarvis, author of the book ''Public Parts'', interviewed Zuckerberg and believes Sorkin made up too much of the story. He states, "That's what the internet is accused of doing, making stuff up, not caring about the facts."<ref name=BBCmovie>Rohrer, Finlo. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11437873 "Is the Facebook movie the truth about Mark Zuckerberg"] BBC, September 30, 2010</ref>
According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine and author of ''The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World,'' (2011),<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439102120 "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World"], release date February 1, 2011</ref> "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".<ref name=BBCmovie />
Although the film portrays Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite [[Officially unrecognized Harvard College social clubs|final clubs]] at Harvard, Zuckerberg said he had no interest in joining the clubs.<ref name="NEWYORKER2010" /> Kirkpatrick agrees that the impression implied by the film is "false". Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, notes that the "image of Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ..." He likewise dismisses the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend".<ref name=BBCmovie />
===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.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/facebook_creator_mark_zuckerbe.html |title=Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg to Get Yellow on The Simpsons |publisher=New York |date=July 21, 2010}}</ref>
On October 9, 2010, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook.<ref>{{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}}</ref> [[Andy Samberg]] played Zuckerberg. The real Zuckerberg was reported to have been amused: "I thought this was funny."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 28, 2011 |url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/mark_zuckerberg_liked_snls_fac.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Liked' SNL's Facebook Skit |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=October 12, 2010}}</ref>
[[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".<ref>{{cite news |author1=Lerer, Lisa |author2=McMillan, Traci |lastauthoramp=yes |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|access-date=November 4, 2010}}</ref>
Zuckerberg appears in the climax of the documentary film ''[[Terms and Conditions May Apply]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nina Metz Chicago Closeup 9:00 a.m. CDT, July 18, 2013 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |title=Terms and Conditions May Apply |work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524171502/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |archivedate=May 24, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=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|access-date=May 25, 2014}} (paid)</ref><ref>{{cite web |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 |work=The Guardian |access-date=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
Zuckerberg was parodied in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Franchise Prequel]]".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Philanthropy==
{{See also|Chan Zuckerberg Initiative}}
[[File:Mark Zuckerberg in Prague 2013.jpg|thumb|left|[[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Chan]] and Zuckerberg in Prague (2013)]]
Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to [[Diaspora (software)|Diaspora]], an open-source personal Web server that implements a distributed social networking service. He called it a "cool idea".<ref name="wired-zuckerberg">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/ |title=Epicenter: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor |last=Singel |first=Ryan |date=May 28, 2010 |work=[[Wired (magazine)#Website|Wired News]] |publisher=Condé Nast Publishing|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref>
Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/mayor-says-newark-is-40-there-in-matching-facebook-founder-s-grant/27213 |title=Mayor Says Newark Is 40% There in Matching Facebook Founder's Grant |date=September 27, 2010 |publisher=[[The Chronicle of Philanthropy]]}}</ref><ref>{{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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120915032857/https://secure.vnuemedia.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i386774579db7c203321dc871f916d867 |archivedate=September 15, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had donated $100 million to [[Newark Public Schools]], the public school system of [[Newark, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite journal |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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101130072722/http%3A//education.newsweek.com/2010/11/23/can%2Dmark%2Dzuckerberg%2Ds%2Dmoney%2Dsave%2Dnewark%2Ds%2Dschools.html |archivedate=November 30, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/national/main6892301.shtml |title=Facebook CEO to Gift $100M to Newark Schools |work=CBS News.com |date=September 22, 2010 |author=Reidel, David}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://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}}</ref> 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."<ref name=forbes20100924>{{cite news |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 |work=Forbes |date=September 24, 2010|access-date=September 28, 2010 |first=Mike |last=Isaac}}</ref> 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.<ref name=forbes20100924 /> The money was largely wasted, according to journalist Dale Russakoff.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|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|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, [[Bill Gates]], and investor [[Warren Buffett]] signed "[[The Giving Pledge]]", in which they promised to 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.<ref>
*{{cite news |work=[[The Mercury News|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}}
*{{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}}
*{{cite news |last=Moss |first=Rosabeth |url=http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101214_945792.htm |title=Four Strategic Generosity Lessons |work=Business Week |date=December 14, 2010 |access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref>
In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife [[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Priscilla Chan]] announced 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]].<ref>[https://www.givingpledge.org/ The Giving Pledge] website. Retrieved December 3, 2015</ref> On December 1, 2015, they announced they would eventually give 99 percent of their Facebook shares (worth about US$45 billion at the time) to the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]].<ref>BBC News. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34983486 The great Facebook giveaway - how will it work?], December 2, 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34978249|title=Zuckerberg to give away 99% of shares|date=December 2, 2015|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
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.<ref>
*{{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|San Jose Mercury News]]}}
*{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10528624/Mark-Zuckerberg-donates-1bn-to-charity.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg donates $1bn to charity|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 19, 2013|accessdate=December 20, 2013|location=London, UK|first=Matthew |last=Sparkes}}
*{{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|work=Mashable |publisher=Mashable|access-date=January 3, 2014|first=Kurt|last=Wagner|date=January 3, 2014}}</ref> ''[[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.<ref name=usa-today-biggest-giver>{{cite news|work=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}}</ref>
[[File:Jimmy Wales and Mark Zuckerberg face to face.jpg|thumb|Zuckerberg, [[Kate Roberts (YouthAIDS)|Kate Roberts]], the founder of [[YouthAIDS]], and [[Jimmy Wales]]]]
In October 2014, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated US$25 million to combat the [[Ebola virus disease]], specifically the [[West African Ebola virus epidemic]].<ref>{{cite web|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|work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|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|work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> in 2016, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced that it would give $600 million to Biohub a location in San Francisco's Mission Bay District near the [[University of California, San Francisco]], to allow for easy interaction and collaboration between scientists at UCSF; [[University of California, Berkeley]]; [[Stanford University]].
On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced the birth of their first daughter Max, and in an open letter to Max, they pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at US$45 billion, to the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]], their new organization that will focus on health and education. The donation will not be given immediately, but over the course of their lives.<ref>{{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|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="BBC News 1 December 2015">{{cite web|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}}</ref> However, 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 tech billionaires have done, Zuckerberg and Chan chose to use the structure of a [[limited liability company]]. This has drawn criticism from a number of journalists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark-zuckerbergs-altruism-helps-himself.html|title=How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself|date=December 3, 2015|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://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|work=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{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|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9836884/zuckerberg-llc|title=Why Mark Zuckerberg's huge new donation is going to an LLC rather than a charity|date=December 2, 2015|work=Vox}}</ref>
Chan and Zuckerberg also signed [[The Giving Pledge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=314|title=Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan|website=Giving Pledge}}</ref> On August 28, 2017, the couple announced the birth of their second daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10103996712572761/|title=Mark Zuckerberg|website=''facebook.com''}}</ref>
==Politics==
[[File:Zuckerberg meets Obama.jpg|thumb|left|Zuckerberg listening to President [[Barack Obama]] before a private meeting where Obama dined with technology business leaders in [[Woodside, California]], February 17, 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. [[Santa Clara County, California|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 [[United States elections, 2008|2008]] and [[United States elections, 2012|2012]].<ref>{{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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224123126/https://www.baycitizen.org/news/technology/zuckerberg-voting-record/ |archivedate=December 24, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{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 |author=David Cohen}}</ref>
Zuckerberg has never revealed his own political views: some news outlets consider him to be a [[conservatism|conservative]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservatives including Mark Zuckerberg, Grover Norquist urge House to pass immigration reform |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/10/30/Conservatives-including-Mark-Zuckerberg-Grover-Norquist-urge-House-to-pass-immigration-reform/UPI-55831383114600/|access-date=December 23, 2013 |agency=United Press International |date=October 21, 2013 |author=Ben Branstetter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Why Mark Zuckerberg is a conservative (and why that matters) |url=http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-fwd-us-conservative/|access-date=December 23, 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=October 30, 2013}}</ref> while others consider him [[Liberalism|liberal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2013: Year of the Liberal Billionaires |website=Politico |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/liberal-billionaires-fundraising-2013-elections-tom-steyer-mark-zuckerberg-michael-bloomberg-99207.html |date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>
On February 13, 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for 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 school]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' Governor Chris Christie |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/100457234|access-date=June 20, 2013 |publisher=CNBC |date=February 13, 2013 |author=Julia Boorstin}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Later that year, Zuckerberg hosted a campaign fundraiser for Newark mayor [[Cory Booker]], who was running in the [[United States Senate special election in New Jersey, 2013|2013 New Jersey special Senate election]].<ref>{{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 |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=June 8, 2013}}</ref> In September 2010, with the support of Governor Chris Christie, Booker obtained a US$100 million pledge from Zuckerberg to [[Newark Public Schools]].<ref>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"], ''Bloomberg'', October 28, 2010</ref> 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.<ref name=education>{{cite web |url=http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/content/education |title=Education |publisher=Silicon valley Community Foundation}}</ref><ref name=mercury-news-achievement-gap>{{cite web |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 |work=[[The Mercury News]]}}</ref>
[[File:Cristina Kirchner and Mark Zuckerberg.jpg|thumb|210px|Zuckerberg with Argentine President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]], 2015]]
On April 11, 2013, Zuckerberg led the launch of a [[501(c) organization|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 (entrepreneur)|Joe Green]], a close friend of Zuckerberg.<ref name=fwd-us-techcrunch1>{{cite web |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 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-techcrunch2>{{cite web |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 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-gigaom>{{cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2013/04/11/why-i-have-issues-with-mark-zuckerbergs-fwd-us/ |title=Why I have issues with Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us |last=Malik |first=Om |date=April 11, 2013 |publisher=[[Gigaom]]|access-date = April 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-theverge>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/11/4212094/fwd-us-facebook-ceo-joins-tech-execs-for-immigration-reform |title=Mark Zuckerberg launches FWD.us with notable Silicon Valley execs in fight for immigration reform |last=Brian |first=Matt |date=April 11, 2013|access-date = April 17, 2013 |publisher=[[The Verge]]}}</ref> 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,<ref name=fwd-us-zuck-op-ed>{{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 |work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-about-us>{{cite web |url=http://www.fwd.us/about_us |title=About Us |publisher=FWD.us|access-date = April 17, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name=zuckerberg_takes_heat>{{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]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503041052/https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-takes-heat-over-keystone-drilling-ads |archivedate=May 3, 2013 |df=}}</ref> In 2013, numerous liberal and progressive groups, such as [[League of Conservation Voters|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 Pipeline#Keystone XL|Keystone XL pipeline]], and in opposition to [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Obamacare]] among Republican United States senators who back immigration reform.{{Clarify|date=May 2014}}<ref>{{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 |work=The Washington Post |last=Weiner |first=Rachel|access-date = August 7, 2013}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In June 2013, Zuckerberg joined Facebook employees in a company float as part of the annual [[San Francisco Pride|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 [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling that deemed the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] (DOMA) unconstitutional.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
[[File:Secretary Kerry Shakes Hands With Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Before Their Meeting at Facebook's New Headquarters in Menlo Park (27862589425).jpg|thumb|230px|Zuckerberg and U.S. Secretary of State [[John Kerry]], 2016]]
When questioned about the mid-2013 [[PRISM (surveillance program)|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.<ref name="Six" />
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 [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Policies targeting Muslims|aftermath]] of the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]] and the [[2015 San Bernardino attack]].<ref name=protect>{{cite web |url=http://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 |publisher=[[TheWrap]]}}</ref><ref name=fbpost2015>{{cite web |url=http://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 |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref name=gd1215>{{cite web |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 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=yt1215>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYunhjsmTqM |title=Mark Zuckerberg Stands With Muslims|access-date=December 11, 2015 |last=[[Cenk Uygur]] |date=December 10, 2015 |publisher=[[The Young Turks]]}}</ref> The statement also said that Muslims are "always welcome" on Facebook, and that his position was a result of the fact that "[[Jewish culture|as a Jew]], my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities."<ref name=haar1215>{{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]]}}</ref><ref name=ind1215>{{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 |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 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
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.<ref name="shaunking-zuckerberg">{{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 |agency=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name="guynn">{{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 |work=[[USA Today]] |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name="benjaminsnyder">{{cite news |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 |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref> New York's ''[[Daily News (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."<ref name="shaunking-zuckerberg"/>
In January 2017, Zuckerberg criticized Donald Trump's [[Executive order (United States)|executive order]] to severely limit immigrants and refugees from some countries.<ref>theguardian.com January 28, 2017: [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-immigration-order-facebook ''Mark Zuckerberg challenges Trump on immigration and 'extreme vetting' order '']</ref>
==Personal life==
Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow student [[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Priscilla Chan]], at a fraternity party during his sophomore year at Harvard. They began dating in 2003.<ref name="forbes1">{{citation |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/ |work=Forbes |date=May 20, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name="techstroke1">{{citation |title=Status Update: Mark Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan |url=http://techstroke.com/status-update-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/ |publisher=Techstroke |date=May 20, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the [[University of California, San Francisco|University of California]],<ref>[http://medschool2.ucsf.edu/spotlights/white-coats-rainbow-students "White Coats on a Rainbow of Students"], ''Spotlight'', UCSF School of Medicine. Cf. Priscilla Chan, 23.</ref> to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]] in preparation for the couple's visit to China in December 2010.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stein |first=Joel |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_CEO_MARRIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-21-31-02|access-date=May 19, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524030904/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_CEO_MARRIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-21-31-02 |archivedate=May 24, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57437780-501465/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/|access-date=May 20, 2012 |publisher=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{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 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=MSNBC |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/?gt1=54001|access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan were expecting a baby girl. He said he felt confident that the risk of [[miscarriage|miscarrying]] was low so far into the pregnancy, after Chan had already suffered three miscarriages.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33743740 |title=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to become a father |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=July 31, 2015 |access-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref> On December 1, Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg ("Max").<ref>{{cite web |title=The Switch Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook stock, worth $45 billion |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/01/mark-zuckerberg-will-give-away-99-percent-of-his-facebook-stock/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A letter to our daughter |url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-our-daughter/10153375081581634 |website=''facebook.com''|access-date = December 1, 2015}}</ref> The couple announced on their [[Chinese New Year]] video, published on February 6, 2016, that Maxima's official Chinese name is Chen Mingyu ({{zh|陈明宇}}).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kell |first1=John |title=Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Daughter's Chinese Name |url=http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/facebook-zuckerberg-daughter/ |website=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.}}</ref> They welcomed their second daughter, August, in August 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg and his wife just unveiled their new baby girl to the world |date=August 28, 2017 |accessdate=August 28, 2017 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/28/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-just-unveiled-their-new-baby-girl-to-world.html |publisher=Fox News Channel}}</ref>
Zuckerberg has also been very active in China, and he has been a member of [[Tsinghua University]] business school's advisory board since 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-visits-china-as-facebook-eyes-realistic-opportunity-to-enter-country-in-2018-2017-10 |title=Mark Zuckerberg is back in China as Facebook eyes opportunity to finally enter the country |website=Business Insider |date=October 28, 2017}}</ref>
Zuckerberg was raised Jewish but later identified as an [[atheist]],<ref name=Kirkpatrick /><ref>{{cite news |last=Vara |first=Vauhini |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119621309736406034 |title=Just How Much Do We Want to Share On Social Networks? |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=November 28, 2007|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Alef">{{cite book |author1=Daniel Alef |title=Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook and Social Networking |date=October 17, 2010 |publisher=Titans of Fortune Publishing |isbn=9781608043118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2z9y4uOy1QC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mark%20Zuckerberg%3A%20The%20Face%20Behind%20Facebook%20and%20Social%20Networking&pg=PP6#v=onepage&q=atheist&f=false|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> a position he has since renounced.<ref name="wapo-12302016" /> He has shown an appreciation for [[Buddhism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-injects-buddhism-into-business-2013-6 |title=Facebook Is Injecting Buddhism Into Its Core Business So It Can Be More Compassionate | access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lionsroar.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-buddhism-is-an-amazing-religion/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg says "Buddhism is an amazing religion| access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> With regard to Christianity, both Zuckerberg and his wife told [[Pope Francis]] in August 2016 "how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he's found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/29/pope-francis-and-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-had-a-meeting-today/ |title=Pope Francis and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg had a meeting today - The Washington Post |last=Zauzmer |first=Julie |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-pope-francis |title=Mark Zuckerberg Gives the Pope an Unusual Gift |last=Fox |first=Emily Jane |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/mark-zuckerberg-gets-facebook-time-pope-francis |title=Pope meets with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg |last=Esteves |first=Junno Arocho |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[America (magazine)|America]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref> In December 2016, when asked "Aren't you an atheist?" in response to a [[Christmas Day]] post on Facebook, Zuckerberg responded, "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."<ref name="wapo-12302016">{{cite news |author1=Julie Zauzmer |title=Mark Zuckerberg says he's no longer an atheist, believes 'religion is very important' |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=December 30, 2016 |work=The Washington Post |date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> As he closed his [[History and traditions of Harvard commencements|commencement address]] at [[Harvard University]] in May 2017, Zuckerberg shared the Jewish prayer ''Mi Shebeirach'', which he stated he says when he faces challenges in life.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/25/mark-zuckerberg-shares-the-prayer-he-says-to-his-daughter-every-night/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg shares the prayer he says to his daughter every night - |last=Bailey |first=Sarah Pulliam |date=May 25, 2017 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=June 6, 2017 |quote=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement address at Harvard University on Thursday, closing his speech by sharing a Jewish prayer called the "Mi Shebeirach," which he said he recites whenever he faces a big challenge and which he sings to his daughter, thinking of her future, when he tucks her in at night.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faithwire.com/2017/05/26/after-abandoning-atheism-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-the-prayer-he-sings-to-his-daughter-every-night-before-bed/ |title=After Abandoning Atheism, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Reveals the Prayer He Sings to His Daughter Every Night Before Bed |last=Hallowell |first=Billy |date=May 26, 2017 |publisher=Faithwire |accessdate=June 6, 2017 |quote=It was during Zuckerberg's commencement address at Harvard University that he shared a Jewish prayer called the "Mi Shebeirach"— an invocation that he said he recites as he copes with major challenges in life and also when he tucks his child in at night, the Washington Post reported.}}</ref>
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* [[Criticism of Facebook]]
* [[Mark Zuckerberg book club]]
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| children = 2
| relatives = [[Randi Zuckerberg]] (sister), [[Donna Zuckerberg]] (sister)
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| known = Co-founding and leading [[Facebook]]
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'''Mark Elliot Zuckerberg''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ʌ|k|ər|b|ɜr|g}}; born May 14, 1984) is an American [[List of Internet entrepreneurs|technology entrepreneur]] and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading [[Facebook]] as its chairman and [[chief executive officer]].<ref name=FBM>{{cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-surges-mark-zuckerberg-pockets-3-8-billion-143114560.html|publisher=Yahoo! Finance|title=Facebook Surges and Mark Zuckerberg Pockets $3.8 Billion|first=Bernice|last=Napach |date=July 26, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120517 |title=Facebook shareholders are wedded to the whims of Mark Zuckerberg |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik |date=May 20, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202155638/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120517 |archivedate=December 2, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
Born in [[White Plains, New York]], Zuckerberg attended [[Harvard University]], where he launched Facebook from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates [[Eduardo Saverin]], [[Andrew McCollum]], [[Dustin Moskovitz]], and [[Chris Hughes]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 |title=At Last – The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded|work=Business Insider|first=Nicholas|last=Carlson|date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. His [[net worth]] is estimated to be [[United States dollar|US$]]61.4 billion as of October 19, 2018, declining over the last year with Facebook stock as a whole.<ref>url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mark-e-zuckerberg/|title=Mark Zuckerberg, Bloomberg Billionaires Index</ref>
Since 2010, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its [[Time Person of the Year|Person of the Year]] award.<ref name="NetWorth">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/|title=Mark Zuckerberg|work=Forbes}}</ref><ref name=POTY>{{cite news|first=Lev|last=Grossman|authorlink=Lev Grossman|url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html|title=Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg|date=December 15, 2010|work=Time|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817081156/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html|archivedate=August 17, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time|url=https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269_2112278,00.html|access-date=April 20, 2012|newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=April 18, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419230619/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269_2112278,00.html|archivedate=April 19, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on [[Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People|''Forbes'' list of The World's Most Powerful People]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The World's Most Powerful People|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2016/12/14/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2016/|newspaper=Forbes|date=December 2016|access-date=December 14, 2016}}</ref>
==Early life==
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in [[White Plains, New York]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Jasmine|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mark-zuckerberg/8204697/Mark-Zuckerberg-wins-Time-person-of-the-year-profile.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg wins Time person of the year: profile|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 15, 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> His parents are Karen (née Kempner), a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist.<ref>{{citation|title=The Zuckerbergs of Dobbs Ferry|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/zuckerberg-family-2012-5/index1.html|magazine=New York |issue=May 14, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> He and his three sisters, [[Randi Zuckerberg|Randi]], Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in [[Dobbs Ferry, New York]], a small [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]] village about 21 miles north of [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref name="NEWYORKER2010">{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas|title=The Face of Facebook|work=The New Yorker|date=September 20, 2010 |author=Vargas, Jose Antonio}}</ref> Zuckerberg was raised in a [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jewish]] household,<ref name=Haartez>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zuckerbergs-curated-jewish-conscience-is-shallow-and-evasive-1.5455322|newspaper=Haartez|title=Mark Zuckerberg's Carefully Curated Jewish Conscience Is Both Shallow and Evasive|first=Anshel|last=Pfeffer|date=October 4, 2017|accessdate=May 12, 2018}}</ref> with ancestors hailing from Germany, Austria and Poland.<ref>{{cite news|last=Zuckerberg|first=Mark|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103460278231481|title=My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria, and Poland.|newspaper=Facebook|date=January 27, 2017|location=PaloAlto}}</ref> He had a ''[[Star Wars]]'' themed [[Bar Mitzvah]] when he turned 13<ref name=Haartez/><ref>{{cite news|last=Burrell|first=Ian|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mark-zuckerberg-hes-got-the-whole-world-on-his-site-2034134.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg: He's got the whole world on his site|work=The Independent|location=UK|date=July 24, 2010|access-date=November 6, 2010}}</ref> and once "questioned things" before deciding "religion is very important".<ref name="wapo-12302016" />
At [[Ardsley High School]], Zuckerberg excelled in classes. He transferred to the private school [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], in New Hampshire, in his junior year, where he won prizes in science (mathematics, astronomy, and physics) and classical studies. In his youth, he also attended the [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] [[Center for Talented Youth]] summer camp. On his college application, Zuckerberg stated that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek. He was captain of the fencing team.<ref name=Kirkpatrick>{{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#v=onepage&q&f=false|access-date=November 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="whatwelearned">{{Cite news |first=Caitlin |last=McDevitt |title=What We Learned About Mark Zuckerberg This Week |date=March 5, 2010 |url=http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/facebook-status/2010/03/05/what-we-learned-about-mark-zuckerberg-week |work=The Big Money|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Software developer==
===Early years===
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in [[middle school]]. His father taught him [[Atari]] [[BASIC Programming]] in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at [[Mercy College (New York)|Mercy College]] near his home while still in high school. In one program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet" that allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate with each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of [[AOL]]'s [[Instant messaging|Instant Messenger]], which came out the following year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.letsintern.com/blog/4-thing-mark-zuckerberg/ |title=4-thing-mark-zuckerberg | access-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://learni.st/users/jacobrwheeler/boards/83006-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-child-prodigy |title=facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-child-prodigy | access-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref>
According to writer [[Jose Antonio Vargas]], "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical "geek-klutz", as he later became captain of his prep school [[fencing]] team and earned a classics diploma. [[Napster]] co-founder [[Sean Parker]], a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg was "really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff", recalling how he once quoted lines from the Roman epic poem ''[[Aeneid]]'', by [[Virgil]], during a Facebook product conference.<ref name="NEWYORKER2010" />
During Zuckerberg's high school years, he worked under the company name Intelligent Media Group 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]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/21/110236.shtml |title=Machine Learning and MP3s |author=Hemos/Dan Moore |date=April 21, 2003 |work=Slashdot|access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref> and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from ''[[PC Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1748374,00.asp |title=Synapse Media Player Review |first=Troy |last=Dreier |date=February 8, 2005 |work=PC Magazine |access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref>
===College years===
[[File:MarkZuckerberg-crop.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Zuckerberg in 2005]]
Vargas noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at [[Harvard]], 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]].<ref name = POTY /><ref name="NEWYORKER2010" /><ref>{{citation |title=Mark Zuckerberg speaks at BYU, calls Facebook "as much psychology and sociology as it is technology" |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700121651/Mark-Zuckerberg-speaks-at-BYU-calls-Facebook-as-much-psychology-and-sociology-as-it-is-technology.html|first=Chase |last=Larson |work=Deseret News |date=March 25, 2011|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> In his [[sophomore]] 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 also to help them form study groups. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called [[History of Facebook#Facemash|Facemash]] that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. According to Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, "he built the site for fun". Hasit explains:
<blockquote>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.<ref name=Hasit>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/facebook-founder-s-roommate-recounts-creation-of-internet-giant-1.275748 |title=Facebook founder's roommate recounts creation of Internet giant |work=Haaretz |date=Oct 5, 2009}}</ref></blockquote>
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 switch]]es and prevented 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."<ref name=Hasit />
The following semester, in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new Web site.<ref name="Hoffman, Claire">{{Cite news |access-date=February 5, 2009 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |title=The Battle for Facebook |newspaper=Rolling Stone |location=New York |date=June 28, 2008 |author=Hoffman, Claire |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703220456/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_for_facebook/ |archivedate=July 3, 2008 |deadurl=yes}}</ref> On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.<ref name="skepticism">{{Cite news|access-date=April 30, 2008 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118539991204578084 |title=Judge Expresses Skepticism About Facebook Lawsuit |work=The Wall Street Journal |location=New York |date=July 25, 2007 |author=Seward, Zachary M.}}</ref>
Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, [[Cameron Winklevoss]], [[Tyler Winklevoss]], and [[Divya Narendra]], accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called [[ConnectU|HarvardConnection.com]], while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.<ref name="zuckerberghacked">{{Cite news |first=Nicolas |last=Carlson |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account |date=March 5, 2010 |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |work=Business Insider |access-date =March 5, 2010}}</ref> The three complained to ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', and the newspaper began an investigation in response.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.<ref name=nytb>{{Cite news |work=New York Times blog |url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/judge-ends-facebooks-feud-with-connectu/index.html |date=June 28, 2008 |title=Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU |author=Stone, Brad}}</ref> The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/02/facebook-ipo-winklevoss-300m-fortune |title=Facebook IPO sees Winklevoss twins heading for $300m fortune |date=February 2, 2012 |location=London |work=The Guardian |first=Dominic |last=Rushe}}</ref>
Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete his project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1109/Mark-Zuckerberg-Harvard-dropout-returns-to-open-arms |title=Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout, returns to open arms |publisher=CS Monitor |date=November 9, 2011}}</ref> In January 2014, he recalled:
<blockquote>I remember really vividly, you know, having pizza with my friends a day or two after—I opened up the first version of Facebook at the time I thought, "You know, someone needs to build a service like this for the world." But I just never thought that we'd be the ones to help do it. And I think a lot of what it comes down to is we just cared more.<ref>{{cite web |title=As Mark Zuckerberg Turns 30, His 10 Best Quotes as CEO |url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233890?newsletter=true |work=Entrepreneur |publisher=Entrepreneur Media, Inc|access-date=16 May 2014 |first=Jason |last=Fell |date=14 May 2014}}</ref></blockquote>
On May 28, 2017, Zuckerberg received an [[honorary degree]] from Harvard.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steinbock |first1=Anna |title=Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-awards-10-honorary-degrees-at-366th-commencement/ |accessdate=May 25, 2017 |work=[[Harvard Gazette]] |date=May 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://pppfocus.com/2017/05/28/13-years-after-quitting-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-gets-honorary-harvard-degree/ |title=13 YEARS AFTER QUITTING, FACEBOOK CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG GETS HONORARY HARVARD DEGREE |publisher=PPP Focus |date=May 28, 2017}}</ref>
==Career==
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===Facebook===
{{Main|Facebook|History of Facebook}}
On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.<ref name="rww051009">{{cite web |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 |work=ReadWrite Social |publisher=SAY Media, Inc|access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Steffan |last=Antonas |date=May 10, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201185222/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php |archivedate=February 1, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=Exeter>{{cite web |title=Face-to-Face with Mark Zuckerberg '02 |url=http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_5594.aspx |work=Phillips Exeter Academy |publisher=Phillips Exeter Academy|access-date=March 26, 2013 |date=January 24, 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref name="rww051009" />
Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate [[Dustin Moskovitz]]. They began with [[Columbia University]], [[New York University]], [[Stanford University|Stanford]], [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]], [[Cornell University|Cornell]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Brown University|Brown]], and [[Yale University|Yale]].<ref>
*{{cite news |title=Thefacebook.com's darker side |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side |first=Chris |last=Holt |date=March 10, 2004 |work=[[The Stanford Daily]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614061858/http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side/ |archivedate=June 14, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}
*{{cite web |title=Online network created by Harvard students flourishes |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/2.5541/1.600318 |work=The Tufts Daily |publisher=College Media Network |access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Lananh |last=Nguyen |date=April 12, 2004 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6KOZTvFwU?url=http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/11/facebook-opens-up-cx_rr_0911facebook.html |archivedate=October 15, 2013 |df=}}
*{{cite web |title=Thefacebook.com opens to Duke students |url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2004/04/14/thefacebookcom-opens-duke-students |work=The Chronicle |publisher=Duke Student Publishing Company |access-date=March 26, 2013 |first=Emily |last=Rotberg |date=April 14, 2004}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/node/41990 |title=Students flock to join college online facebook |work=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825022008/http://thedp.com/node/41990 |archivedate=August 25, 2011}}</ref> [[Samyr Laine]], a [[triple jump]]er representing [[Haiti]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], shared a room with Zuckerberg during Facebook's founding. "Mark was clearly on to great things," said Laine, who was Facebook's fourteenth user.<ref>{{cite news |title=Zuckerberg's Roomie Aims to Win for Haiti |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443659204577572852311606434 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 7, 2012 |author=Alice Speri}}</ref>
Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and some friends moved to [[Palo Alto, California]] in [[Silicon Valley]] where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met [[Peter Thiel]], who invested in the 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]]s is just not an attractive idea to me."<ref name=Exeter />
He restated these goals to ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."<ref name="wired-zuckerberg" /> Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former [[Netscape]] CFO [[Peter Currie (businessman)|Peter Currie]] about financing strategies for Facebook.<ref name=twsOctBPP>{{cite news |title=Yu, Zuckerberg and the Facebook fallout |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout/|access-date=March 26, 2013 |agency=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.}}</ref> On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.<ref>{{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}}</ref> When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:
<blockquote>I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average [[Search engine marketing|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.<ref name="wired-zuckerberg" /></blockquote>
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 culture|hacker]]". Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better".<ref name="wired041910">{{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 |work=Wired |date=April 19, 2010 |author=Levy, Steven}}</ref><ref name="fast092410">{{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}}</ref> Facebook instituted "[[hackathon]]s" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.<ref name="wired041910" /> The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.<ref name="fast092410" /> "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."<ref name="wired041910" />
''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the [[Information Age]]".<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=1 |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |work=Vanity Fair |date=October 2010}}</ref> Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the ''Vanity Fair'' 100 list in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/new-establishment200910?currentPage=all |title=The Vanity Fair 100 |work=Vanity Fair |date=September 1, 2010}}</ref> In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in ''[[New Statesman]]''{{'}}s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.<ref name="htanna">{{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}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{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 |work=Bloomberg |date=November 7, 2011 |access-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Medvedev and Zuckerberg October 2012-1.jpeg|thumb|Zuckerberg and Russian President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] during their meeting at the Russian leader's residence outside [[Moscow]], October 1, 2012]]
On October 1, 2012, Zuckerberg visited [[Russia]]n Prime Minister [[Dmitry Medvedev]] in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook's position in the Russian market.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zuckerberg in Moscow to boost Facebook's presence |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20121001-zuckerberg-moscow-boost-facebooks-presence-0 |publisher=France 24 |date=October 1, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003232618/http://www.france24.com/en/20121001-zuckerberg-moscow-boost-facebooks-presence-0 |archivedate=October 3, 2012 |df=}}</ref> 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 (social networking)|VK]] had around 34 million.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russia pushes Facebook to open research center |url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/01/russia-pushes-facebook-to-open-research-center/ |publisher=Fox News |date=October 1, 2012}}</ref> Rebecca Van Dyck, Facebook's head of consumer marketing, claimed that 85 million American Facebook users were exposed to the first day of the Home promotional campaign on April 6, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |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/ |work=Ad Age digital |publisher=Crain Communications|access-date=April 18, 2013 |first=Cotton |last=Delo |date=April 16, 2013}}</ref>
On August 19, 2013, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
At the 2013 [[TechCrunch#TechCrunch Disrupt|TechCrunch Disrupt]] conference, held in September, Zuckerberg stated that he is working towards registering the 5 billion humans 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.<ref name="Six">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Sew">{{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}}</ref>
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, claiming that mobile represents the future of the company.<ref>
*{{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}}
*{{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}}
*{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 |work=''BBC News''|date=February 22, 2014 |author=Mark Gregory}}</ref>
Alongside other American technology figures like [[Jeff Bezos]] and [[Tim Cook]], Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician [[Lu Wei (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 attempted to converse in [[Standard Chinese|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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".<ref name="Tad">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Sam">{{cite web |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 |website=''Inc.'' |publisher=Monsueto Ventures|access-date=December 14, 2014 |date=December 12, 2014}}</ref>
Zuckerberg receives a [[one-dollar salary]] as CEO of Facebook.<ref name="$1Club">{{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}}</ref> 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 — which is estimated at over $52.1 billion."<ref>{{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 |publisher=Business Insider Inc.}}</ref>
===Wirehog===
{{Main|Wirehog}}
A month after Zuckerberg launched Facebook in February 2004, [[i2hub]], another campus-only service, created by [[Wayne Chang]], was launched. i2hub focused on [[peer-to-peer]] file sharing. 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.<ref>{{Cite news |publisher=Martey Dodoo |url=http://www.marteydodoo.com/2004/08/16/wirehog/ |date=August 16, 2004 |title=Wirehog? |author=Martey Dodoo}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
===Platform, Beacon, and Connect===
[[File:Mark Zuckerberg, World Economic Forum 2009 Annual Meeting.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Waist high portrait of man in his twenties, looking into the camera and gesturing with both hands, wearing a black pullover shirt that says "The North Face" and wearing identification on a white band hanging from his neck|Zuckerberg at the [[World Economic Forum]] in [[Davos]], Switzerland (January 2009).]]
On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced [[Facebook Platform]], a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |title=80000 developers |access-date=April 21, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324022748/http://www.gits4u.com/infotech/info15.htm |archivedate=March 24, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Beacon, a social advertising system that enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, [[eBay]] sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they listed items for sale. The program came under scrutiny because of privacy concerns from groups and individual users. Zuckerberg and Facebook failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on December 5, 2007, Zuckerberg wrote a blog post on Facebook,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130 |title=The Facebook Blog | Facebook |publisher=Blog.facebook.com |access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref> taking responsibility for the concerns about Beacon and offering an easier way for users to opt out of the service.
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=635 |title=2007 Young Innovators Under 35: Mark Zuckerberg, 23 |publisher=[[MIT Technology Review]] |year=2007 | access-date=August 14, 2011}}</ref> On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced [[Facebook Platform#Facebook Connect|Facebook Connect]], a version of Facebook Platform for users.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
===Internet.org===
In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg launched the [[Free Basics|Internet.org]] project in late August 2013. He explained that the primary aim of the initiative is to provide Internet access to the five billion people who are not connected as of the launch date. Using a three-tier strategy, Internet.org will also create new jobs and open up new markets, according to Zuckerberg. He stated in his post:
<blockquote>The world economy is going through a massive transition right now. The knowledge economy is the future. By bringing everyone online, we'll not only improve billions of lives, but we'll also improve our own as we benefit from the ideas and productivity they contribute to the world. Giving everyone the opportunity to connect is the foundation for enabling the knowledge economy. It is not the only thing we need to do, but it's a fundamental and necessary step.<ref name="Sew" /></blockquote>
To stay proven on the efforts of bringing in the concept of [[net neutrality]], Zuckerberg met [[Narendra Modi]], [[Satya Nadella]] and [[Sundar Pichai]] at Silicon Valley, to discuss on how to effectively establish affordable [[internet]] access to the less developed countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/at-facebook-we-also-believe-in-net-neutrality-very-strongly-mark-zuckerberg/ |title=Meet at the Silicon Valley among the tech leaders and Indian Prime Minister-Narendra Modi|access-date= October 9, 2015}}</ref> As a token of initiation, he changed his Facebook profile picture to extend his support to the [[Digital India]] to help the rural communities to stay connected to the internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102393263811931&set=a.743613136151.2308566.4&type=3&permPage=1 |title=Mark Zuckerberg supports Digital India|access-date= October 9, 2015}}</ref>
===Legal controversies===
{{Main|Criticism of Facebook}}
====ConnectU lawsuits====
{{Main|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]]).<ref>{{cite web |first=Nicholas |last=Carlson |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3 |title=In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account |publisher=Silicon Alley Insider|access-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> They filed a lawsuit in 2004, but it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts|federal court]] in [[Boston]]. Facebook countersued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by [[i2hub#The Winklevoss Chang Group|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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. Facebook filed to have the documents removed, but the judge ruled in favor of ''02138''.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Caroline |url=http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827222-36.html?tag=cd.blog |title=article about 02138 |publisher=News.com |date=November 30, 2007|access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref>
====Saverin lawsuit====
A lawsuit filed by [[Eduardo Saverin]] against Facebook and Zuckerberg was settled out of court. Though terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook. Saverin signed a non-disclosure contract after the settlement.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |title=The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read |publisher=CNN |first=Jessi |last=Hempel |date=July 25, 2009 |access-date=May 21, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914024405/http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/ |archivedate=September 14, 2010 |df=}}</ref>
====Pakistan criminal investigation====
In June 2010, [[Pakistan]]i Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders [[Dustin Moskovitz]] and [[Chris Hughes]] after a "[[Everybody Draw Mohammed Day|Draw Muhammad]]" contest was hosted on Facebook. The investigation 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 law|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]].<ref>{{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 |publisher=NBC Bay Area|access-date=June 26, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan |title=Zuckerberg faces criminal investigation in Pakistan }}</ref>
====Paul Ceglia====
{{Main|Paul Ceglia}}
In June 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood [[pellet fuel]] company in [[Allegany County, New York|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 of Facebook, but did not register the domain name ''thefacebook.com'' until January 1, 2004. 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/article/20100729/NEWS/307299940 |title=Facebook does not have a like button for Ceglia |author=Anderson, John |publisher=WellsvilleDaily.com |date=July 29, 2010|access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2010/07/20/zuckerberg-ceglia |title=Venture beat coverage of Ceglia lawsuit}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia's arrest.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
====Palestinian terror attacks====
On July 2, 2016, Israeli cabinet minister [[Gilad Erdan]] accused Zuckerberg of having some responsibility for deadly [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|attacks by Palestinians]] against Israelis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/israel-minister-facebook-zuckerberg-blood-hands-over-teenager-settlement-477399 |title=Israeli minister accused facebook and its founder |newspaper=Newsweek|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref> According to him, the social network was not doing enough to ban posts to its platform that incite violence against Israelis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/685709/Facebook-Mark-Zuckerberg-Israel-Palestine-terrorists |title=Mark Zuckerberg is facing claims that Facebook is not helping Israel crack down on terror |newspaper=Express|access-date=July 3, 2016}}</ref> "Some of the victims' blood is on Zuckerberg's hands", Erdan said.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-has-terror-victims-blood-his-hands-israeli-minister-says-1568729 |title=Mark Zuckerberg has terror victim's 'blood on his hands', Israeli minister says |newspaper=International Business Times|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref>
====Hawaiian land ownership====
In January 2017, Zuckerberg filed eight "[[quiet title]] and [[Partition (law)|partition]]" lawsuits against hundreds of [[native Hawaiians]] to purchase small tracts of land which they own. This land is contained within the 700 [[acre]]s of land in the Hawaiian island of [[Kauai]] that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014. When he learned that Hawaiian [[Property law|land ownership law]] differs from that of the other 49 states, he dropped the lawsuits.<ref>[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-hawaii-land-lawsuit Mark Zuckerberg hits back at 'misleading' claims he is suing Hawaiian landowners], Wired, January 20, 2017</ref><ref>[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"], ''Pacific Business News'', February 26, 2017</ref>
=== Testimony before U.S. Congress===
On April 10 and April 11, 2018, Zuckerberg began testifying 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|Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data breach]].<ref>{{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 {{!}} United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref> He has called the whole affair a breach of trust between [[Aleksandr Kogan]], [[Cambridge Analytica]], and Facebook.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071|title=MArk Zuckerberg Facebook Post|publisher=Facebook|date=28 April 2018}}</ref> Zuckerberg has refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliamentary]] committee in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43554135]</ref>
==Depictions in media==
===''The Social Network''===
{{Main|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."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=June 26, 2010 |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html?tag=mncol;title |title=Zuckerberg in the hot seat at D8 |publisher=CNET |date=June 2, 2010 |author=Fried, Ina}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{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 |work=The Times |date=May 16, 2010 |author=Harlow, John |location=London}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{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 |work=The New York Times |date=August 20, 2010 |author1=Cieply, Michael |author2=Helft, Miguel |lastauthoramp=yes}}</ref> The film's screenwriter [[Aaron Sorkin]] told [[New York (magazine)|''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?"<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319 |title=Inventing Facebook |publisher=New York |date=September 17, 2010 |author=Harris, Mark}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://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}}</ref> Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://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}}</ref>
: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 being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they ever met.<ref>{{cite web|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 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=January 30, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131034819/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462104,00.html |archivedate=January 31, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting."<ref>{{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}}</ref> In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg explains that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now, a year and a half thinking about him ..." He adds, "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."<ref>[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"] ''Popsugar'', February 7, 2011</ref><ref>[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"] NPR, January 30, 2011</ref>
====Disputed accuracy====
Jeff Jarvis, author of the book ''Public Parts'', interviewed Zuckerberg and believes Sorkin made up too much of the story. He states, "That's what the internet is accused of doing, making stuff up, not caring about the facts."<ref name=BBCmovie>Rohrer, Finlo. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11437873 "Is the Facebook movie the truth about Mark Zuckerberg"] BBC, September 30, 2010</ref>
According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine and author of ''The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World,'' (2011),<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439102120 "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World"], release date February 1, 2011</ref> "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".<ref name=BBCmovie />
Although the film portrays Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite [[Officially unrecognized Harvard College social clubs|final clubs]] at Harvard, Zuckerberg said he had no interest in joining the clubs.<ref name="NEWYORKER2010" /> Kirkpatrick agrees that the impression implied by the film is "false". Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, notes that the "image of Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ..." He likewise dismisses the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend".<ref name=BBCmovie />
===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.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 22, 2010 |url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/facebook_creator_mark_zuckerbe.html |title=Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg to Get Yellow on The Simpsons |publisher=New York |date=July 21, 2010}}</ref>
On October 9, 2010, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook.<ref>{{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}}</ref> [[Andy Samberg]] played Zuckerberg. The real Zuckerberg was reported to have been amused: "I thought this was funny."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 28, 2011 |url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/mark_zuckerberg_liked_snls_fac.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Liked' SNL's Facebook Skit |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=October 12, 2010}}</ref>
[[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".<ref>{{cite news |author1=Lerer, Lisa |author2=McMillan, Traci |lastauthoramp=yes |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|access-date=November 4, 2010}}</ref>
Zuckerberg appears in the climax of the documentary film ''[[Terms and Conditions May Apply]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nina Metz Chicago Closeup 9:00 a.m. CDT, July 18, 2013 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |title=Terms and Conditions May Apply |work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524171502/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0719-chicago-closeup-20130718,0,4941570.column |archivedate=May 24, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=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|access-date=May 25, 2014}} (paid)</ref><ref>{{cite web |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 |work=The Guardian |access-date=May 25, 2014}}</ref>
Zuckerberg was parodied in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Franchise Prequel]]".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Philanthropy==
{{See also|Chan Zuckerberg Initiative}}
[[File:Mark Zuckerberg in Prague 2013.jpg|thumb|left|[[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Chan]] and Zuckerberg in Prague (2013)]]
Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to [[Diaspora (software)|Diaspora]], an open-source personal Web server that implements a distributed social networking service. He called it a "cool idea".<ref name="wired-zuckerberg">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/ |title=Epicenter: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor |last=Singel |first=Ryan |date=May 28, 2010 |work=[[Wired (magazine)#Website|Wired News]] |publisher=Condé Nast Publishing|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref>
Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/mayor-says-newark-is-40-there-in-matching-facebook-founder-s-grant/27213 |title=Mayor Says Newark Is 40% There in Matching Facebook Founder's Grant |date=September 27, 2010 |publisher=[[The Chronicle of Philanthropy]]}}</ref><ref>{{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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120915032857/https://secure.vnuemedia.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i386774579db7c203321dc871f916d867 |archivedate=September 15, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had donated $100 million to [[Newark Public Schools]], the public school system of [[Newark, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite journal |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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101130072722/http%3A//education.newsweek.com/2010/11/23/can%2Dmark%2Dzuckerberg%2Ds%2Dmoney%2Dsave%2Dnewark%2Ds%2Dschools.html |archivedate=November 30, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|access-date=September 23, 2010 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/national/main6892301.shtml |title=Facebook CEO to Gift $100M to Newark Schools |work=CBS News.com |date=September 22, 2010 |author=Reidel, David}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://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}}</ref> 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."<ref name=forbes20100924>{{cite news |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 |work=Forbes |date=September 24, 2010|access-date=September 28, 2010 |first=Mike |last=Isaac}}</ref> 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.<ref name=forbes20100924 /> The money was largely wasted, according to journalist Dale Russakoff.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|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|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, [[Bill Gates]], and investor [[Warren Buffett]] signed "[[The Giving Pledge]]", in which they promised to 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.<ref>
*{{cite news |work=[[The Mercury News|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}}
*{{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}}
*{{cite news |last=Moss |first=Rosabeth |url=http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101214_945792.htm |title=Four Strategic Generosity Lessons |work=Business Week |date=December 14, 2010 |access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref>
In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife [[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Priscilla Chan]] announced 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]].<ref>[https://www.givingpledge.org/ The Giving Pledge] website. Retrieved December 3, 2015</ref> On December 1, 2015, they announced they would eventually give 99 percent of their Facebook shares (worth about US$45 billion at the time) to the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]].<ref>BBC News. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34983486 The great Facebook giveaway - how will it work?], December 2, 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34978249|title=Zuckerberg to give away 99% of shares|date=December 2, 2015|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
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.<ref>
*{{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|San Jose Mercury News]]}}
*{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10528624/Mark-Zuckerberg-donates-1bn-to-charity.html |title=Mark Zuckerberg donates $1bn to charity|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 19, 2013|accessdate=December 20, 2013|location=London, UK|first=Matthew |last=Sparkes}}
*{{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|work=Mashable |publisher=Mashable|access-date=January 3, 2014|first=Kurt|last=Wagner|date=January 3, 2014}}</ref> ''[[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.<ref name=usa-today-biggest-giver>{{cite news|work=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}}</ref>
[[File:Jimmy Wales and Mark Zuckerberg face to face.jpg|thumb|Zuckerberg, [[Kate Roberts (YouthAIDS)|Kate Roberts]], the founder of [[YouthAIDS]], and [[Jimmy Wales]]]]
In October 2014, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated US$25 million to combat the [[Ebola virus disease]], specifically the [[West African Ebola virus epidemic]].<ref>{{cite web|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|work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|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|work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> in 2016, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced that it would give $600 million to Biohub a location in San Francisco's Mission Bay District near the [[University of California, San Francisco]], to allow for easy interaction and collaboration between scientists at UCSF; [[University of California, Berkeley]]; [[Stanford University]].
On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced the birth of their first daughter Max, and in an open letter to Max, they pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at US$45 billion, to the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]], their new organization that will focus on health and education. The donation will not be given immediately, but over the course of their lives.<ref>{{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|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="BBC News 1 December 2015">{{cite web|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}}</ref> However, 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 tech billionaires have done, Zuckerberg and Chan chose to use the structure of a [[limited liability company]]. This has drawn criticism from a number of journalists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark-zuckerbergs-altruism-helps-himself.html|title=How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself|date=December 3, 2015|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://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|work=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{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|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9836884/zuckerberg-llc|title=Why Mark Zuckerberg's huge new donation is going to an LLC rather than a charity|date=December 2, 2015|work=Vox}}</ref>
Chan and Zuckerberg also signed [[The Giving Pledge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=314|title=Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan|website=Giving Pledge}}</ref> On August 28, 2017, the couple announced the birth of their second daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10103996712572761/|title=Mark Zuckerberg|website=''facebook.com''}}</ref>
==Politics==
[[File:Zuckerberg meets Obama.jpg|thumb|left|Zuckerberg listening to President [[Barack Obama]] before a private meeting where Obama dined with technology business leaders in [[Woodside, California]], February 17, 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. [[Santa Clara County, California|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 [[United States elections, 2008|2008]] and [[United States elections, 2012|2012]].<ref>{{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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224123126/https://www.baycitizen.org/news/technology/zuckerberg-voting-record/ |archivedate=December 24, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{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 |author=David Cohen}}</ref>
Zuckerberg has never revealed his own political views: some news outlets consider him to be a [[conservatism|conservative]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservatives including Mark Zuckerberg, Grover Norquist urge House to pass immigration reform |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/10/30/Conservatives-including-Mark-Zuckerberg-Grover-Norquist-urge-House-to-pass-immigration-reform/UPI-55831383114600/|access-date=December 23, 2013 |agency=United Press International |date=October 21, 2013 |author=Ben Branstetter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Why Mark Zuckerberg is a conservative (and why that matters) |url=http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-fwd-us-conservative/|access-date=December 23, 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Dot |date=October 30, 2013}}</ref> while others consider him [[Liberalism|liberal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2013: Year of the Liberal Billionaires |website=Politico |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/liberal-billionaires-fundraising-2013-elections-tom-steyer-mark-zuckerberg-michael-bloomberg-99207.html |date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>
On February 13, 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for 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 school]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' Governor Chris Christie |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/100457234|access-date=June 20, 2013 |publisher=CNBC |date=February 13, 2013 |author=Julia Boorstin}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Later that year, Zuckerberg hosted a campaign fundraiser for Newark mayor [[Cory Booker]], who was running in the [[United States Senate special election in New Jersey, 2013|2013 New Jersey special Senate election]].<ref>{{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 |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=June 8, 2013}}</ref> In September 2010, with the support of Governor Chris Christie, Booker obtained a US$100 million pledge from Zuckerberg to [[Newark Public Schools]].<ref>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"], ''Bloomberg'', October 28, 2010</ref> 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.<ref name=education>{{cite web |url=http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/content/education |title=Education |publisher=Silicon valley Community Foundation}}</ref><ref name=mercury-news-achievement-gap>{{cite web |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 |work=[[The Mercury News]]}}</ref>
[[File:Cristina Kirchner and Mark Zuckerberg.jpg|thumb|210px|Zuckerberg with Argentine President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]], 2015]]
On April 11, 2013, Zuckerberg led the launch of a [[501(c) organization|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 (entrepreneur)|Joe Green]], a close friend of Zuckerberg.<ref name=fwd-us-techcrunch1>{{cite web |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 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-techcrunch2>{{cite web |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 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-gigaom>{{cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2013/04/11/why-i-have-issues-with-mark-zuckerbergs-fwd-us/ |title=Why I have issues with Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us |last=Malik |first=Om |date=April 11, 2013 |publisher=[[Gigaom]]|access-date = April 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-theverge>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/11/4212094/fwd-us-facebook-ceo-joins-tech-execs-for-immigration-reform |title=Mark Zuckerberg launches FWD.us with notable Silicon Valley execs in fight for immigration reform |last=Brian |first=Matt |date=April 11, 2013|access-date = April 17, 2013 |publisher=[[The Verge]]}}</ref> 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,<ref name=fwd-us-zuck-op-ed>{{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 |work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name=fwd-us-about-us>{{cite web |url=http://www.fwd.us/about_us |title=About Us |publisher=FWD.us|access-date = April 17, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name=zuckerberg_takes_heat>{{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]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503041052/https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-takes-heat-over-keystone-drilling-ads |archivedate=May 3, 2013 |df=}}</ref> In 2013, numerous liberal and progressive groups, such as [[League of Conservation Voters|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 Pipeline#Keystone XL|Keystone XL pipeline]], and in opposition to [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Obamacare]] among Republican United States senators who back immigration reform.{{Clarify|date=May 2014}}<ref>{{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 |work=The Washington Post |last=Weiner |first=Rachel|access-date = August 7, 2013}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In June 2013, Zuckerberg joined Facebook employees in a company float as part of the annual [[San Francisco Pride|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 [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling that deemed the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] (DOMA) unconstitutional.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
[[File:Secretary Kerry Shakes Hands With Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Before Their Meeting at Facebook's New Headquarters in Menlo Park (27862589425).jpg|thumb|230px|Zuckerberg and U.S. Secretary of State [[John Kerry]], 2016]]
When questioned about the mid-2013 [[PRISM (surveillance program)|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.<ref name="Six" />
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 [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016#Policies targeting Muslims|aftermath]] of the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]] and the [[2015 San Bernardino attack]].<ref name=protect>{{cite web |url=http://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 |publisher=[[TheWrap]]}}</ref><ref name=fbpost2015>{{cite web |url=http://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 |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref name=gd1215>{{cite web |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 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=yt1215>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYunhjsmTqM |title=Mark Zuckerberg Stands With Muslims|access-date=December 11, 2015 |last=[[Cenk Uygur]] |date=December 10, 2015 |publisher=[[The Young Turks]]}}</ref> The statement also said that Muslims are "always welcome" on Facebook, and that his position was a result of the fact that "[[Jewish culture|as a Jew]], my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities."<ref name=haar1215>{{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]]}}</ref><ref name=ind1215>{{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 |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 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
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.<ref name="shaunking-zuckerberg">{{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 |agency=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name="guynn">{{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 |work=[[USA Today]] |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name="benjaminsnyder">{{cite news |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 |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=February 25, 2016}}</ref> New York's ''[[Daily News (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."<ref name="shaunking-zuckerberg"/>
In January 2017, Zuckerberg criticized Donald Trump's [[Executive order (United States)|executive order]] to severely limit immigrants and refugees from some countries.<ref>theguardian.com January 28, 2017: [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/27/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-immigration-order-facebook ''Mark Zuckerberg challenges Trump on immigration and 'extreme vetting' order '']</ref>
==Personal life==
Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow student [[Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg|Priscilla Chan]], at a fraternity party during his sophomore year at Harvard. They began dating in 2003.<ref name="forbes1">{{citation |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/ |work=Forbes |date=May 20, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name="techstroke1">{{citation |title=Status Update: Mark Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan |url=http://techstroke.com/status-update-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/ |publisher=Techstroke |date=May 20, 2012|access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the [[University of California, San Francisco|University of California]],<ref>[http://medschool2.ucsf.edu/spotlights/white-coats-rainbow-students "White Coats on a Rainbow of Students"], ''Spotlight'', UCSF School of Medicine. Cf. Priscilla Chan, 23.</ref> to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]] in preparation for the couple's visit to China in December 2010.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stein |first=Joel |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart |url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_CEO_MARRIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-21-31-02|access-date=May 19, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524030904/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_CEO_MARRIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-21-31-02 |archivedate=May 24, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57437780-501465/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/|access-date=May 20, 2012 |publisher=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{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 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=MSNBC |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/?gt1=54001|access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan were expecting a baby girl. He said he felt confident that the risk of [[miscarriage|miscarrying]] was low so far into the pregnancy, after Chan had already suffered three miscarriages.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33743740 |title=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to become a father |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=July 31, 2015 |access-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref> On December 1, Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg ("Max").<ref>{{cite web |title=The Switch Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook stock, worth $45 billion |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/01/mark-zuckerberg-will-give-away-99-percent-of-his-facebook-stock/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A letter to our daughter |url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-our-daughter/10153375081581634 |website=''facebook.com''|access-date = December 1, 2015}}</ref> The couple announced on their [[Chinese New Year]] video, published on February 6, 2016, that Maxima's official Chinese name is Chen Mingyu ({{zh|陈明宇}}).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kell |first1=John |title=Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Daughter's Chinese Name |url=http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/facebook-zuckerberg-daughter/ |website=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.}}</ref> They welcomed their second daughter, August, in August 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mark Zuckerberg and his wife just unveiled their new baby girl to the world |date=August 28, 2017 |accessdate=August 28, 2017 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/28/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-just-unveiled-their-new-baby-girl-to-world.html |publisher=Fox News Channel}}</ref>
Zuckerberg has also been very active in China, and he has been a member of [[Tsinghua University]] business school's advisory board since 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-visits-china-as-facebook-eyes-realistic-opportunity-to-enter-country-in-2018-2017-10 |title=Mark Zuckerberg is back in China as Facebook eyes opportunity to finally enter the country |website=Business Insider |date=October 28, 2017}}</ref>
Zuckerberg was raised Jewish but later identified as an [[atheist]],<ref name=Kirkpatrick /><ref>{{cite news |last=Vara |first=Vauhini |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119621309736406034 |title=Just How Much Do We Want to Share On Social Networks? |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=November 28, 2007|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Alef">{{cite book |author1=Daniel Alef |title=Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook and Social Networking |date=October 17, 2010 |publisher=Titans of Fortune Publishing |isbn=9781608043118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2z9y4uOy1QC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mark%20Zuckerberg%3A%20The%20Face%20Behind%20Facebook%20and%20Social%20Networking&pg=PP6#v=onepage&q=atheist&f=false|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> a position he has since renounced.<ref name="wapo-12302016" /> He has shown an appreciation for [[Buddhism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-injects-buddhism-into-business-2013-6 |title=Facebook Is Injecting Buddhism Into Its Core Business So It Can Be More Compassionate | access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lionsroar.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-buddhism-is-an-amazing-religion/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg says "Buddhism is an amazing religion| access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> With regard to Christianity, both Zuckerberg and his wife told [[Pope Francis]] in August 2016 "how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he's found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/29/pope-francis-and-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-had-a-meeting-today/ |title=Pope Francis and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg had a meeting today - The Washington Post |last=Zauzmer |first=Julie |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-pope-francis |title=Mark Zuckerberg Gives the Pope an Unusual Gift |last=Fox |first=Emily Jane |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/mark-zuckerberg-gets-facebook-time-pope-francis |title=Pope meets with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg |last=Esteves |first=Junno Arocho |date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[America (magazine)|America]] |access-date=January 7, 2017}}</ref> In December 2016, when asked "Aren't you an atheist?" in response to a [[Christmas Day]] post on Facebook, Zuckerberg responded, "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."<ref name="wapo-12302016">{{cite news |author1=Julie Zauzmer |title=Mark Zuckerberg says he's no longer an atheist, believes 'religion is very important' |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=December 30, 2016 |work=The Washington Post |date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> As he closed his [[History and traditions of Harvard commencements|commencement address]] at [[Harvard University]] in May 2017, Zuckerberg shared the Jewish prayer ''Mi Shebeirach'', which he stated he says when he faces challenges in life.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/05/25/mark-zuckerberg-shares-the-prayer-he-says-to-his-daughter-every-night/ |title=Mark Zuckerberg shares the prayer he says to his daughter every night - |last=Bailey |first=Sarah Pulliam |date=May 25, 2017 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=June 6, 2017 |quote=Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement address at Harvard University on Thursday, closing his speech by sharing a Jewish prayer called the "Mi Shebeirach," which he said he recites whenever he faces a big challenge and which he sings to his daughter, thinking of her future, when he tucks her in at night.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.faithwire.com/2017/05/26/after-abandoning-atheism-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-the-prayer-he-sings-to-his-daughter-every-night-before-bed/ |title=After Abandoning Atheism, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Reveals the Prayer He Sings to His Daughter Every Night Before Bed |last=Hallowell |first=Billy |date=May 26, 2017 |publisher=Faithwire |accessdate=June 6, 2017 |quote=It was during Zuckerberg's commencement address at Harvard University that he shared a Jewish prayer called the "Mi Shebeirach"— an invocation that he said he recites as he copes with major challenges in life and also when he tucks his child in at night, the Washington Post reported.}}</ref>
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* [[Criticism of Facebook]]
* [[Mark Zuckerberg book club]]
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