Methodology

The rules this site was built under — neutrality for a living person, sourced quotes, flagged uncertainty, honest images.

Neutrality

Mark Zuckerberg is a living person. This reference uses an encyclopedia tone: neutral description, no endorsement, no attack, no partisan framing. Where interpretations differ, the competing views are presented with attribution. Adjectives of praise or blame appear only inside cited quotations.

Sourcing

• Quotes are presented verbatim from documented sources (filings, published letters, transcripts, recorded interviews). Each carries its source. Lines without a verifiable primary source are listed as misattributed, not quoted.
• Dates and figures follow company filings, court records, and contemporaneous reporting. Reported-but-unconfirmed figures (e.g., the 2006 Yahoo offer) are flagged as reported.
• Deal sizes and user counts are announced values from press releases and earnings; they are rounded and cited per page.

Uncertainty

Disputed or incomplete matters are labeled:

• Disputed — informed sources disagree (e.g., the founding lawsuits’ merits).
• Reported — widely reported but unconfirmed on the record (e.g., acquisition offer figures).
• Dramatized — the 2010 film is treated as dramatization, never as evidence.
• Analysis — forward-looking or evaluative passages (notably what’s next) are labeled as the author’s synthesis.

Imagery honesty

• Real photographs only for biographical content: Wikimedia Commons images, public-domain or Creative Commons licensed, each recorded in the image credits on this page with source, license, and attribution, and captioned with what the photo actually shows.
• No generated images of real people. Ever. The animated “Techlord” character art is deliberately stylized cartoon art, labeled “AI-generated dramatization art — not a historical depiction” everywhere it appears.
• Captions describe the photograph’s actual subject and date as documented — never a guess presented as fact.

Corrections

Errors will be corrected with a visible note. If you spot one, the standard is: fix the fact, keep the receipt.

Source notes

• This page is the site’s editorial contract; it governs every other page.
• Provenance for all images: the image credits on this page.