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Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of social media giant Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. Zuckerberg is the chairman, CEO, and controlling shareholder of Meta Platforms. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook in 2004 from his dormitory with several other roommates. In 2007, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at age 23. Zuckerberg took Facebook public in May 2012 with majority shares. The Meta boss has often been featured on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world. Zuckerberg’s Facebook journey has also been portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in Hollywood Blockbuster ‘The Social Network’. In more recent times, Zuckerberg and Facebook has gotten mixed up in a myriad of lawsuits. EU regulators have also come down hard on the social media platform for the way it deals with citizens’ user data. While Zuckerberg is also known for his various philanthropic ventures, reports have accused the Meta CEO and other billionaires in the US of legally paying almost nothing in federal taxes. Zuckerberg also launched Internet.org, an initiative to provide Internet access to billions of people. However, the project faced massive opposition by Indian activists who criticised the project noting that it ran counter to the principle of net neutrality. Zuckerberg has also appeared in the US Congress multiple times, particularly in the Cambridge Analytica debacle, which saw a British consulting firm collect the personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent. More

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  • Mark Zuckerberg is paying US workers Rs 4,850 an hour to build Hindi AI chatbots for India: Report

    Mark Zuckerberg is paying US workers Rs 4,850 an hour to build Hindi AI chatbots for India: Report

    Meta’s decision to hire contractors fluent in Hindi to train AI chatbots signals a more hands-on approach in shaping culturally relevant digital personas for India.

  • Mark Zuckerberg drags Mark Zuckerberg to court and no, it’s not a typo

    Mark Zuckerberg drags Mark Zuckerberg to court and no, it’s not a typo

    An Indiana lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta after Facebook repeatedly flagged him as impersonating CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s how the name confusion turned into a courtroom battle.

  • Mark Zuckerberg hands out noise-canceling headphones to neighbors: Here’s Why

    Mark Zuckerberg hands out noise-canceling headphones to neighbors: Here’s Why

    Mark Zuckerberg handed out noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors after years of nonstop construction at his sprawling compound. From underground bunkers to parties, see how the billionaire is keeping the peace—and what the internet thinks of his unusual apology.

  • Elon Musk urges Mark Zuckerberg to ‘do something great’ instead of paying huge salaries to poach talent

    Elon Musk urges Mark Zuckerberg to ‘do something great’ instead of paying huge salaries to poach talent

    Elon Musk has taken a dig at Mark Zuckerberg, saying Meta is trying to poach AI talent with sky-high pay. Musk claims his company xAI is attracting top engineers from Meta without offering “insane” salaries and urges Zuckerberg to “do something great” instead.

  • Meet man who rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion job offer, now his LinkedIn profile is going viral

    Meet man who rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion job offer, now his LinkedIn profile is going viral

    Andrew Tulloch turned down a $1.5 billion job offer from Meta. His decision and LinkedIn profile are now going viral across the internet.

  • 5 bold predictions Mark Zuckerberg made about the future of AI

    5 bold predictions Mark Zuckerberg made about the future of AI

    Mark Zuckerberg has shared 5 bold predictions about the future of AI—from personal superintelligence to always-on assistants. Here’s what he thinks is coming next and how it could transform your daily life.

  • Meta's AI hiring blitz: Employee compensation to drive up 2026 expenses

    Meta's AI hiring blitz: Employee compensation to drive up 2026 expenses

    In recent months, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pursuing and poaching some of the most sought-after AI talent from rivals such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Apple, offering billion-dollar compensation packages

  • Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision for "personal superintelligence and says it's all about you

    Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision for "personal superintelligence and says it's all about you

    In a blog post, Mark Zuckerberg says the company is now seeing early signs of its AI models improving themselves. Though the pace is currently slow, the trajectory is unmistakable — superintelligence is now within sight.

  • Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy litigation

    Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy litigation

    Mark Zuckerberg was expected to take the stand on Monday and Sandberg on Wednesday. The trial was scheduled to run through the end of next week.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says AI researchers are joining Meta not for big salaries but for this reason

    Mark Zuckerberg says AI researchers are joining Meta not for big salaries but for this reason

    Mark Zuckerberg says top AI researchers are joining Meta not for money, but for unmatched compute power and small, high-impact teams with direct access to leadership.

  • Meta investors, Zuckerberg to square off at $8 billion trial over alleged privacy violations

    Meta investors, Zuckerberg to square off at $8 billion trial over alleged privacy violations

    The case dates back to 2018, after it emerged that data from millions of Facebook users was accessed by Cambridge Analytica

  • 'Influential researcher' Trapit Bansal among 4 Meta poached from OpenAI. IITian says he's 'thrilled'

    'Influential researcher' Trapit Bansal among 4 Meta poached from OpenAI. IITian says he's 'thrilled'

    This high-profile hire is part of a broader, aggressive recruitment drive led personally by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His multi-billion-dollar strategy aims to regain Meta’s footing in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

  • Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs, introduces 11 key hires in leaked memo

    Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs, introduces 11 key hires in leaked memo

    Zuckerberg has managed to pull in some seriously big names from AI giants like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. The list includes people who’ve worked on some of the most advanced AI models out there — from GPT-4o to Gemini and beyond.

  • Why Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are no longer supporting San Francisco Pride parade

    Why Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are no longer supporting San Francisco Pride parade

    After Facebook updated the policy, Zuckerberg himself reached out to SF Pride’s then-director to get Facebook back into the parade. The company proudly marched in the years that followed.

  • Mark Zuckerberg is personally hiring for Meta’s AI dream team and the salary could be highest in the industry

    Mark Zuckerberg is personally hiring for Meta’s AI dream team and the salary could be highest in the industry

    Zuckerberg has taken matters into his own hands. He’s been meeting with top AI experts at his homes in California and has reshuffled Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park to set up this new AI team right near his office.

  • Meta considering premium tier, ads for AI assistant, says Mark Zuckerberg

    Meta considering premium tier, ads for AI assistant, says Mark Zuckerberg

    Meta AI is one of the major opportunities the company is pursuing as part of its AI push amid rising competition, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said

  • Meta boosts 2025 spending up to $72 billion as AI race heats up

    Meta boosts 2025 spending up to $72 billion as AI race heats up

    Meta stated that the higher capex is due to additional data center investments to support its AI efforts, as well as an increase in the expected cost of infrastructure hardware.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says he is more likely to follow influencers on Instagram, X than Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg says he is more likely to follow influencers on Instagram, X than Facebook

    In an email exchange with a senior Facebook executive, Mark Zuckerberg said that even if Instagram and WhatsApp did well, he didn't see a path to success for Meta if Facebook faltered.

  • Meta rolls out Llama 4 as race for AI dominance heats up

    Meta rolls out Llama 4 as race for AI dominance heats up

    Meta Llama 4 will also power the company's AI assistant Meta AI on the web and Meta-owned apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

  • How much wealth did Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg lose as Trump's tariffs see Wall Street crumble

    How much wealth did Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg lose as Trump's tariffs see Wall Street crumble

    The drop is the fourth-largest one-day decline in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index’s 13-year history, and the largest since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Mark Zuckerberg once asked China President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child. What happened next

    Mark Zuckerberg once asked China President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child. What happened next

    In her memoir, Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who spent seven years as Facebook’s director of global public policy, provided a critical account of the company's internal culture, controversial decisions, and its attempts to gain a foothold in China.

  • Mark Zuckerberg's 'old-school Facebook hoodie' sells for Rs 14 lakh, Steve Jobs's tie for Rs 31 crore

    Mark Zuckerberg's 'old-school Facebook hoodie' sells for Rs 14 lakh, Steve Jobs's tie for Rs 31 crore

    The new owner of Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie received a handwritten note from the tech titan that read: 'One of my favorite old-school Facebook hoodies. I wore this all the time in the early days...'

  • Meta fires 20 employees for leaking confidential information, more job cuts expected

    Meta fires 20 employees for leaking confidential information, more job cuts expected

    Lately, Meta has been dealing with a lot of leaks. Reports have revealed details from private meetings, including one led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

  • Meta lays off employee who worked for 15 years. She sues it for sexual assaults, denied promotions

    Meta lays off employee who worked for 15 years. She sues it for sexual assaults, denied promotions

    Describing one dark incident, Kelly Stonelake said that at a party with a group of colleagues, a male executive in her management chain said drunkenly, ‘Hey Kelly, what would your husband say if you called him right now and said that you f####d me?’

  • 'Someone was trying to get me sentenced to death in Pakistan': Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

    'Someone was trying to get me sentenced to death in Pakistan': Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

    The Meta CEO added that while he was not worried about the possibility of his plane being shot down should he ever fly over Pakistan, he felt the incident was avoidable.

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