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Current Influence. Cambridge Analytica and Trump Ban. Facebook, along with Instagram which it owns , and rival Twitter, are three of the most influential social networking sites in the world. After much speculation, Facebook banned former President Donald Trump indefinitely from its network in January , in response to the capital riots.
In May , Facebook's oversight board determined Facebook was right to ban Trump, but wrong to make the ban indefinite, rather than a set amount of time. Article Sources. Check this site out: www. Someone is already trying to make a dating site. But they made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them. So I'm like delaying it so it won't be ready until after the facebook thing comes out.
This IM suggests that, within a week of meeting with the Winklevosses for the first time, Mark had already decided to start his own, similar project--"the facebook thing. A few weeks after the initial meeting with the HarvardConnection team, after Mark sent the IM to Eduardo Saverin talking about developing "the facebook thing" and delaying his development of HarvardConnection, Mark met with the HarvardConnection folks, Cameron, Tyler, and Divya, for a second time.
This time, instead of meeting in the dining hall of Mark's residential hall, Kirkland House, the four met in Mark's dorm room. Divya is said to have arrived late. In Kirkland House, the dorm rooms aren't laid out in cinder-block-cube style: Mark's room had a narrow hallway connecting it to his neighbor's.
As Cameron and Tyler sat down on a couch in Mark's room, Cameron spotted something in the hallway. On top of a bookshelf there was a white board.
It was the kind Web developers and product managers everywhere use to map out their ideas. On it, Cameron read two words, "Harvard Connection.
Immediately, Mark asked Cameron to stay out of the hallway. Eventually Divya arrived and the four of them talked about plans for Harvard Connection. One feature Mark brought up was designed to keep more popular and sought-after Harvard Connection users from being stalked and harassed by crowds of people.
In this second meeting, Mark still appeared to be actively engaged in developing Harvard Connection. But he never showed the HarvardConnection folks any site prototypes or code. And they didn't insist on seeing them.
During the weeks in which Mark was juggling the two projects in tandem, he also had a series of IM exchanges with a friend named Adam D'Angelo above. Adam and Mark went to boarding school together at Phillips Exeter Academy. There, the pair became friends and coding partners. Together they built a program called Synapse, a music player that supposedly learned the listener's taste and then adapted to it. But the pair stayed in close touch, especially through AOL instant messenger.
Through the Harvard Connection-Facebook saga and its aftermath, Mark kept Adam apprised of his plans and thoughts. One purported IM exchange seems particularly relevant on the question of how Mark distinguished between the two projects--the "facebook thing" and "the dating site"--as well as how he was considering handling the latter:.
Zuck: Because they're probably going to be released around the same time. Zuck: Unless I fuck the dating site people over and quit on them right before I told them I'd have it done. Zuck: Like I don't think people would sign up for the facebook thing if they knew it was for dating. Zuck: and I think people are skeptical about joining dating things too. Zuck: But the guy doing the dating thing is going to promote it pretty well.
Zuck: I think the Facebook thing by itself would draw many people, unless it were released at the same time as the dating thing. Zuck: In which case both things would cancel each other out and nothing would win. Any ideas? Like is there a good way to consolidate the two. D'Angelo: We could make it into a whole network like a friendster.
Stanford has something like that internally Zuck: Well I was thinking of doing that for the facebook. The only thing that's different about theirs is that you like request dates with people or connections with the facebook you don't do that via the system. Zuck: I also hate the fact that I'm doing it for other people haha.
Like I hate working under other people. I feel like the right thing to do is finish the facebook and wait until the last day before I'm supposed to have their thing ready and then be like "look yours isn't as good as this so if you want to join mine you can…otherwise I can help you with yours later.
Zuck: The thing is they have a programmer who could finish their thing and they have money to pour into advertising and stuff. Oh wait I have money too. In June , Facebook announced it was getting into the cryptocurrency business with the planned launch of Libra in Along with developing the blockchain technology to power its financial infrastructure, Facebook established a Switzerland-based oversight entity called the Libra Association, comprised of tech giants like Spotify and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz.
Despite providing assurances that Facebook would withdraw from the Libra Association if the project failed to garner approval from regulators, Zuckerberg faced pointed questioning from skeptical lawmakers who cited the Cambridge Analytica fiasco and other past transgressions. Zuckerberg has been married to Priscilla Chan, a Chinese-American medical student he met at Harvard, since About people gathered at the couple's Palo Alto, California home for the ceremony.
The guests thought they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation from medical school, but instead they witnessed Zuckerberg and Chan exchange vows.
Zuckerberg has two daughters, Max, born on November 30, , and August, born on August 28, The couple announced they were expecting both of their children on Facebook. When Zuckerberg welcomed Max, he announced he would be taking two months of paternity leave to spend with his family. Since amassing his sizeable fortune, Zuckerberg has used his millions to fund a variety of philanthropic causes. Then, in December , Zuckerberg signed the "Giving Pledge", promising to donate at least 50 percent of his wealth to charity over the course of his lifetime.
After his donation, Zuckerberg called on other young, wealthy entrepreneurs to follow suit. In November , Zuckerberg and his wife also pledged in an open letter to their daughter that they would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charity. They also announced the founding of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub , a San Francisco-based independent research center that will bring together engineers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists and others in the scientific community.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Co-founder of the successful startup Broadcast. Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean is credited with helping develop a number of landmark technologies, including the color PC monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture system bus and the first gigahertz chip.
Television star Mark Harmon has been on long-running shows such as St. Jack Dorsey is an American businessman best known as the founder of the social networking site Twitter. Entrepreneur Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world. Mark Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the s and '60s.
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