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In a Q&A over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about David Fincher’s The Social Network, a movie that chartered the creation of Facebook with Jesse Eisenberg (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) portraying its creator. From the sounds of things, he was not a fan…
“I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about that movie in a while. I kind of blocked that one out,” Zuckerberg told the audience. “I think the reality is that writing code and then building a product and building a company is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about, so you can imagine that a lot of this stuff they had to embellish or make up. They went out of their way in the movie to try to get some interesting details correct like the design of the office, but on the overarching plot – they just kind of made up a bunch of stuff that I found kind of hurtful”.
Zuckerberg added that he did meet Eisenberg (despite what IMDB’s trivia page will tell you) but also added, “there were pretty glaring things that were just made up about the movie that made it pretty hard to take seriously.”
The movie, written by Aaron Sorkin, was based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal and also starred Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Armie Hammer.
Originally published November 10, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
