Mezrich wrote a nonfiction account of the rise of Russian oligarchs and Vladimir Putin in 2015 before Russian election meddling in the 2016 presidential election became known. If they are going to throw a picture of a ball at us because they want us to buy a ball, it’s very different.” Mezrich continued, “If they’re going to throw things at us as if they are a news story, it does have to be vetted as a news story. So a publisher does have to judge whether something is true or not if it is going to present it as true.”
“But the reality is it’s a media company and a publisher. “Zuckerberg’s response is that he shouldn’t be the one to judge whether something is true or not,” Mezrich said. Sorkin appealed to Zuckerberg to use the same pursuit-of-truth standard that he applied to vetting the “Social Network” screenplay, which Facebook tried to shut down several times. The refusal of Facebook to vet the content of political ads on the site so incensed “Social Network” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin that he wrote an open letter to Zuckerberg that appeared as an op-ed in The New York Times on Oct. “Zuckerberg is hiding himself under the free speech thing to do things that none of us would really quantify as free speech,” Mezrich said after a keynote discussion with FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller at FreightWaves LIVE Chicago on Tuesday, Nov. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, and lawyers.Author Ben Mezrich, who wrote the story of Facebook’s co-founding that became the film “The Social Network”, thinks CEO Mark Zuckerberg needs to act as a publisher in policing truth in political ads on Facebook. But conflicting ideas about Facebook's future transformed the friends into enemies. With Saverin's funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard's computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. NATIONAL BESTSELLER " The Social Network, the much anticipated movie.adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." - The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University's elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Mezrich, Ben The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and BetrayalĪnchor, September 2010.
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