Facebook has slammed The Social Network as a work of "fiction" that lies to be entertaining. Yet a company spokesman ended up inadvertently writing a climactic line of dialog that ties the Facebook movie together. Whoops.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will appear on Oprah Friday to announce a $100 million donation to help resuscitate Newark's failed public school system. That's a lot of money, even for someone worth $6.9 billion. Talk about some well-timed PR!

Mark Zuckerberg attended a screening of The Social Network near Seattle, a film critic and another person who was at the Facebook movie preview are claiming on Twitter. Facebook does have a new office in the city.

David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook movie opens next week and the reviews are coming in. Surprisingly (?), stuffy old movie critics seem to think it's, well, brilliant. Let's take a look at what some folks had to say.

Many people haven't been able to connect to Facebook for over half an hour. Other people report connecting just fine. There's no official word yet, but lots of Twitter moaning. At least show us a pretty whale, Facebook.

A South Carolina police officer feared his cop car was looking dirty, so he took it to a stripper-sponsored "Tits n Tats" car wash to get his cruiser shined. There are pictures. They ended up on Facebook. He got fired.

Facebook's board somehow distilled a hugely successful strategy from threadbare briefings by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who explains in this video how he would scrawl all the board's Facebook news on a single sheet of yellow paper.

The forthcoming Facebook movie exists thanks to an embittered co-founder who blabbed about the company's origins. Instant messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, below, describe the "dirty tricks" that made the co-founder so angry—and so indiscreet.

Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss appeared on the Today Show, dressed in matching outfits, to explain why they are reopening their suit against Facebook, coincidentally right in the midst of the media blitz for Facebook film The Social Network.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are entrepreneurs, twins, Olympic rowers, and Harvard graduates. They are best known, however, for alleging that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them back in early 2004.

The buzz around Diaspora, a soon-to-be-released, privacy-centric social network, is so strong that the release of its early source code has generated dozens of blog posts. We have no idea what these letters and numbers mean!

Mark Zuckerberg lured a talented chef from Google by offering him the respect he'd been denied. Yet look at the frat-house fare the Facebook CEO has him cooking.

Peter Kafka saw The Social Network and said the film depicts Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as "an insecure jerk who screws over people." More worrisome: The coke-and-tits scene that made Zuckerberg seem vaguely cool now lacks tits. Damage control time.

John Mayer has quit Twitter. Repeat: @JohnCMayer has qwittered. This startling development comes three days after Mayer tweeted a photo entitled "Self Portrait of The Artist Three Days Before His Metaphoric Retirement." Here are his last tweets, preserved for posterity.

Mark Zuckerberg admits in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information. A youthful indiscretion, the Facebook founder says he's much more mature now, at the ripe age of 26.

This weekend, Philadelphia police arrested 27-year-old Robert Nickson Jr. (pictured) and charged him with statutory rape. One mistake? Posting pictures of himself and his underage fiancée to Facebook. The other mistake? Trying to marry a 14-year-old girl. [via]

Remember that hoodie with the strange, cult-like symbol inside that Mark Zuckerberg wore to the D8 conference? In June, one was sold on eBay for over $4,000. If you're pissed about missing that chance to waste money, here's another.

What's more surprising: The fact robbers in New Hampshire used Facebook Places to learn when homeowners were out of the house, or the fact we're surprised by this after Pleaserobme.com so effectively demonstrated the criminal possibilities of location-based social networking?

The company behind Mafia Wars and Farmville doesn't like to talk about the sad addicts who fuel its profits. But it does quietly run a special store for them, where imaginary credits are bought with very real bank transfers.

Google is paying some people around half a million dollars not to go to Facebook, a senior Facebook engineer has confirmed. Googlers, prepare to get spoiled and entitled again, recession be damned.