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Mark Zuckerberg: The Man Who Changed Social Media Forever
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From a boy writing code for his father's dental clinic to apps that about 3.6 billion people open every day: the true story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, from a Harvard dorm room in 2004 to the courts and the AI race of 2026. The wins, the mistakes and the price we all paid, told fairly.
Key takeaways
- In 2006 Yahoo reportedly offered up to $1 billion for Facebook; at 22 he said no, and about a year later Microsoft's investment valued the company at about $15 billion.
- News Feed (2006) and the Like button (2009) changed social media: friends' news comes to you, and every like tells the company what you care about.
- "Senator, we run ads": if you don't pay with money, you often pay with your attention and your data.
- Moving fast broke things: Cambridge Analytica (up to 87 million people's data), a $5 billion FTC fine, and teen mental-health cases that led to a 2026 settlement worth up to $17.1 billion.
- The phone is a tool, not a boss: if courts now set two hours a day for teens, we can set our own limits too.
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