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Mark Zuckerberg Has to Sit in a Room With Glenn Beck Now

Ashley Feinberg · 05/15/16 06:40PM

In an effort to quell the frantic conservative Twitter eggs currently running amok online, Mark Zuckerberg has resorted to a line of recourse that seems almost too good to be true (for everyone who’s not Mark Zuckerberg). Because this coming Wednesday, the Facebook man who struggles to understand basic social cues is going to be forced to sit in a room with conservative lunatic Glenn Beck and 11 other “conservative thought leaders.” Sometimes dreams really can come true.

Vandals Attack Facebook Offices in Germany

Brendan O'Connor · 12/13/15 09:15PM

A group of 15-20 people wearing black clothes and hoods attacked the building housing Facebook’s offices in Hamburg, Germany, police said in a statement Saturday. Reuters reports that the vandals smashed glass, threw paint, and sprayed “Facebook dislike” on a wall. A Facebook spokesman said no one was injured.

Mark Zuckerberg Declares Himself "the Leader of Facebook"

Brendan O'Connor · 12/10/15 08:01PM

Mark Zuckerberg, founder, chairman, and CEO of Facebook, shared his thoughts yesterday on the place Islamophobia has on the billion-person-strong social network. (That is: there is no place for it.) In the process, he described himself as “the leader of Facebook.” Haha, what?

New Button Coming

Kelly Conaboy · 09/15/15 04:07PM

Wish there were a “dislike” button? Well, damn—you should have wished for something much better. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that a “dislike” button is imminent for Facebook, the terrible social network that you hate.

​Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama Do Not Dress The Same

Leah Finnegan · 11/12/14 02:50PM

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who sells your private information for profit, was recently asked about his sartorial philosophy during a Facebook town hall—more specifically, why does the precocious genius behind the foremost destination for social networking choose to wear such simple, humble threads every day when he could be blinged out in bespoke sharkskin suits and a diamond necklace that reads "IKNOWEVERYTHINGBOUTUBITCH"?

Successful Street Artist Talks About How He Maybe Raped His Masseuse

Adam Weinstein · 04/18/14 03:17PM

A popular street artist who's rubbed elbows with Anthony Bourdain and graffitied the walls of Facebook's headquarters used his sex-talk podcast last month to describe a forceful sexual encounter with his massage therapist that sounded an awful lot like assault.

Michelle Dean · 03/27/14 01:40PM

"At a CoinSummit panel on Wednesday, [venture capitalist and ex-Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya] also said he thinks Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg thinks bitcoin is cool. Facebook declined to comment."

Mark Zuckerberg's Self-Serving Immigration Crusade

Adrian Chen · 04/30/13 12:40PM

Having solved the problem of people not wasting enough time on the internet, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now tackling his first real-world political cause: immigration reform. With a slick new non-profit group funded by tech millionaires, Zuckerberg is rallying Silicon Valley's elite into a political force they hope might one day rival Wall Street. Zuckerberg's political moves are of a piece with his career as a tech mogul: hugely ambitious, painfully awkward, entirely self-interested, and surprisingly successful. And he's just getting started.

Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Tap Your Face and Throw it Away

Kate Bennert · 04/04/13 02:12PM

Today Facebook announced their new "not a Facebook phone"-Facebook-phone "Facebook Home" which is basically a phone where all you can do is look at Facebook. "This is a phone," announced a sweaty, mumbly Mark Zukerberg, "that is centered around people not apps." By which he actually means: "this is a phone which enables you to treat your human friends like aps."