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Rolling Stone replows old ground on Zuckerberg, Facebook

By Gary Jacobson   |   June 18, 2008 at 4:20pm   |   0 Comments

Don’t bother reading the Rolling Stone story (dated June 26) on Mark Zuckerberg and “The Battle for Facebook.” It has been done before. And better.

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Late last year, 02138, the magazine for Harvard alums, published a long story by Luke O’Brien about whether Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook, based in part on the legal challenges from the founders of ConnectU, a rival social networking firm.

The documents O’Brien found in court records are still posted after 02138 successfully fought a legal challenge from Zuckerberg.

Claire Hoffman, the author of the Rolling Stone piece, doesn’t acknowledge O’Brien’s heavy lifting. But give her credit for a couple of interesting observations:

At one point she calls Zuckerberg “a Nietzschean superdork for the digital age.” Near the end, she sums up: “And the fact that many consider Zuckerberg a grade-A asshole doesn’t mean he did anything illegal.”

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