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Almost as soon as Facebook was launched it was mired in legal issues. Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with Divya Narendra, claimed that Mark Zuckerberg had reneged on an agreement to help them build their own social media site at Harvard. Allegedly, they claimed that Zuckerberg used their idea and his code to build Facebook instead of their own venture. But this was not the only lawsuit against the fledgling social media site. A New York-based, former wood-pellet salesman called Paul Ceglia also claimed that he was owed a large amount of Facebook stock from a contract with Zuckerberg.
According to Ceglia's claim, back in , he hired Zuckerberg then an year old freshman at Havard to complete some coding for a site called Streetfax, later Streetdelivery. Ceglia claimed that he was now owed a large chunk on Facebook shares based on that investment. At the time, Facebook suggested the claim was "fraudulent" and used Ceglia's history of fraud as evidence.
But the case then got more interesting. The actual founder of StreetDelivery, Andrew Logan, confirmed that Ceglia had indeed worked there in , and that Zuckerberg had been employed to write the code for Streetfax. The case, however, was dismissed by a federal judge when the findings of a magistrate judge were upheld showing that the evidence provided by Ceglia had, indeed, been faked. You won't be surprised to hear that the first Facebook profile belonged to none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself.
The first "real" Facebook user, with an id of 5, was Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg's friend, and co-founder of Facebook. The next few dozen accounts appear to have been Zuckerberg's friends, classmates, and roommates. Interestingly, Business Insider conducted an investigation a few years back and discovered the first 20 Facebook accounts and their relationships with one another.
According to their findings, after Zuckerberg and Hughes, the next few accounts were as follows:. While we have already touched on some of the early lawsuits against the company, Facebook has also taken fire for a few other, allegedly suspect, activities. One major bone of contention surrounding Facebook is its apparent dissemination of "fake news".
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Report Illegal Content Sometimes you might unwittingly stumble across illegal online content like child abuse imagery. The previous year, he had become a campus celebrity by creating FaceMash, a website where students could vote on which of two randomly-selected Harvard women was more attractive, and quickly running afoul of both the administration and several women's groups. FaceMash was short-lived but popular, leading Zuckerberg to consider the value of creating a campus-wide social network.
Over the course of his sophomore year, Zuckerberg built what would become Facebook. When it launched on February 4, he and his roommates were glued to their screens, watching as an estimated 1,, of their fellow students signed up for their site within its first 24 hours of existence.
From there, Facebook expanded rapidly, moving to other Boston-area schools and the rest of the Ivy League that spring. From there, Facebook spread across the world, becoming not only an incredibly valuable company but also one of the most important institutions of the early 21st century.
The go-to social media site for a generation of internet users and one which was readily adopted by older users as it transformed from exclusive to universal , Facebook was one of the major forces that brought the internet into the highly-participatory phase full of user-generated content sometimes referred to as "Web 2.
In addition to allowing misinformation and fake accounts to proliferate, Facebook has drawn criticism both for selling its users' data and for failing to adequately protect it.
Nonetheless, Facebook continues to dominate the social media market, generating by far the most ad revenue and maintaining over half of the total market share. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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