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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announces $100 million donation on 'Oprah'
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GoogleFacebook founder (and subject of the new movie "The Social Network") Mark Zuckerberg was on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Friday (Sept. 24) alongside Newark mayor Corey Booker and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to announce his $100 million donation to Newark schools.
The timing of the donation announcement happens to land on the same day "The Social Network" opens at the New York Film Festival, but both Zuckerberg and Oprah assure us that the timing is a coincidence. Oprah says that she and Booker had to convince Zuckerberg to come on her show instead of donating the money anonymously and that Zuckerberg and Booker were intitially going to make the announcement in early August, but couldn't gel their schedules.
Zuckerberg also touches on "The Social Network," which doesn't make him look like best guy. He says, "It's a movie, it's fun. A lot of it is fiction, but even the filmmakers will say that. They're trying to build a good story."
There is also footage of Zuck's house, which is the first time cameras have ever been allowed inside.
What do you think? Coincidence or not? And will you be going to see "The Social Network"?
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I can hardly wait to see the movie. Zuckerberg is fascinating and the refreshingly utter antithesis to the Wall Street type tycoon who wears $3000.00 shoes.
It is not unusual to be young, naive and unknowing....
We have all made mistakes.
His $100 million dollar gift more than makes up for any youthful indiscretions.
Mark Zuckerberg may be a villain nexweek when The Social Network is released, but he is a hero today.
IMO >>>> Ms. Goodman - In my Opinion MZ is a scumbag, has always been a scumbag, and will always be a scumbag. He stole FB from the people who came up with it, and called those who trusted him with their info "Dumb *****", as wll as offering any and all of their info to a friend. And now we are susposed to praise him because he donated money that doesn't belong to him? That money belongs to the true creators of FB. The only reason he is doing this is to divert public opinion - and, if you read the article and others about this 100 mill topic, you will see that the whole "wanted to do this anonymously" is like so much that has to do with MZ, absolute bullshit. I refuse to praise a thief and liar. I suggest you do some research on MZ before you post comments kissing his ***, unless of course you are one of his FB employees shilling for the boss. In that case, get a life, brain, and spine.
Who cares if it is a coincidence or not, that $100 million dollars just did a lot of people a lot of good. He might not be the greatest person in the world and personally I hate facebook, but I can't knock the guy for helping public schools.