Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Will Support the Republican National Convention…But It Will Be Awkward

Facebook has confirmed its participation in both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which are scheduled for this July. The promise comes despite the fact that Donald Trump and his campaign—which Mark Zuckerberg has lobbed thinly veiled shots at before—will be front and center at the RNC. “This support allows Facebook to facilitate an open…

Person of Interest’s Final Villains Are Mark Zuckerberg and Isaac Asimov

For years, Person of Interest has been right on the cutting edge between commenting on current events and speculating about the future. With its final season, the show is depicting a futuristic nightmare—and yet, it’s also more topical than ever before. We talked to producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman, and they told us the…

Mark Zuckerberg Declares He Is God During Facebook Earnings Call

Today, Facebook laid out its earnings report. Mark Zuckerberg also announced that he is God. “While helping to connect the world will always be the most important thing I do, there are more global challenges that I feel a responsibility to help solve,” God wrote in a blog post accompanying Facebook’s earnings, which totally crushed…

Facebook Says it Doesn’t Try to Influence How People Vote

Facebook has declared it will never use its product to influence how people on the platform vote. Earlier today, Gizmodo reported that employees had asked Mark Zuckerberg to answer the question, “What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?” in an internal poll. Our report came after Zuckerberg made unprecedented political…

Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency 

This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to publicly denounce the political positions of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the keynote speech of the company’s annual F8 developer conference. “I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others,’” Zuckerberg said, never referring to Trump by name. “I hear them…

5 Things to Know About Facebook’s Event Today

Facebook spent most of its F8 developer keynote talking about the future of the company. Messenger, Oculus Rift, Zuck’s gray t-shirt, a Donald Trump reference—it was all there. But rather than forcing you to sit through an hour of “the power of global connection” overstatements, we did all the hard work for you, and compiled…

Facebook Will Let You Livestream From Any Device

Today, Facebook kicked off its annual developer conference F8, a title that is sadly not a bastardization of the word “fate.” During the keynote, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would open up its API for Facebook Live, allowing users to stream live video from any device. Previously, users could only stream…

Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook F8 Keynote Right Here

Mark Zuckerburg is getting ready to tell us all about the future of Facebook, which is likely filled with chatbots, and live video, and virtual reality. All the action starts at 1pm ET. Want to watch? You’ve come to the right place. If the player above happens to be doing wonky things in your browser,…

What Is Facebook at Work and Do You Need to Care?

On Facebook’s never-ending quest to take over the world, no stone is left unturned. It has left fingerprints on virtual reality, messaging platforms, games, and apps for people who like brunch. Until recently, however, it stayed away from enterprise software—programs used by companies to keep track of their business and employees. (Unofficially, of course, Facebook…

Mark Zuckerberg Is on Apple’s Side Even Though Most Americans Are Not

Facebook is the latest tech giant to join Apple’s battle against the FBI. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he supports Apple’s decision not to provide back-door access for the government to crack the iPhone of a suspected terrorist. As reported by Re/code Zuckerberg’s said: We’re sympathetic…

Mark Zuckerberg Wants You to Run 365 Miles This Year

Mark Zuckerberg has big ambitions for 2016. Not content with making Ex Machina a reality, he’s also challenging us all to run 365 miles by the end of the year. Are you game? He posted to Facebook: I have a physical challenge for 2016 as well. I’m going to run 365 miles and I’d love…

It Took Less Than a Year for the Plot of Ex Machina to Become a Reality

Mark Zuckerberg just announced that his “personal challenge” for the new year is to build an artificial intelligence to help him around the house. Sound familiar? It’s basically the (horrifying) premise of Ex Machina. There are some spoilers below, if you haven’t seen the movie. Imagine Zuck as the film’s antagonist, a mad billionaire named…

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2016 Resolution: Build An AI To Run His House

Mark Zuckerberg just revealed his 2016 resolution: build a simple AI to help him run his home. Here’s his Facebook post: Every year, I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and grow outside my work at Facebook. My challenges in recent years have been to read two books every month, learn Mandarin…

Mark Zuckerberg Celebrates Birth of First Born Child by Giving Away (Almost) All of His Facebook Shares (Eventually)

In a Facebook post addressed to his recently born first child, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg subtly made two major announcements. One, his wife Priscilla gave birth to a baby girl named Max (short for Maxima). Two, Mark and Priscilla will give away 99-percent of their Facebook shares within their lifetimes. The money will go to…

How Mark Zuckerberg Is Engineering Facebook to Be More Like Google 

A billion people logged into Facebook on a single Monday this past summer, prompting all sorts of hot, hot theories about where Facebook is headed. Now Mark Zuckerberg has given us some insights, and describes a future for Facebook that sounds… a lot like Google. The Zuckerberg profile in this month’s Fast Company doesn’t do…

Mark Zuckerberg Warns of Too Much Net Neutrality

There is such a thing as too much freedom. If nothing was illegal, people would rob and kill each other! There’s no such thing as too much net neutrality, however. Unless you’re talking to the billionaire son of a dentist who’s trying to make every person on the planet sign up for his internet website.…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg already got people reading Iain M. Banks’ The Player of Games for his “A Year of Books” challenge. Now he’s picked another science fiction book: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. And translator Ken Liu is hanging out in the comments! Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on…

Zuckerberg Wants Everybody on Facebook by 2020

At the United Nations on Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg declared his intentions to get the entire world on Facebook online, arguing that internet access is the key to ending extreme poverty. “When people have access to the tools and knowledge of the internet, they have access to opportunities that make life better for all of us,”…

Zuck Is Having a Baby, But What About That Adorable Dog?

Congratulations have been pouring in ever since Mark Zuckerberg posted (on Facebook, of course) that he and his wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a daughter in a few months. It’s wonderful and all (mazel tov, you two!), but most people took a look at their photo and wondered, is that a dog—or a mop? Yes,…

Mark Zuckerberg on VR, AI and Sending Thoughts Over the Internet

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg ran a Q&A on Facebook, answering questions about the future of the social network, its technology and the Internet more generally. Here are some of the choice cuts. We’ve already covered his first public statements on real names and LGBT users. But elsewhere in the Q&A his discussed some of the less…