Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing that he was “disgusted with social media” and, thus, he was leaving Facebook as a result is fake news. The Facebook founder did not leave the company. Rather, a story that appeared to report the social media maven is stepping down was a fiction created to sell a skin care product and has no truth to it.
Where did this fake story originate? In March 2017, an advertisement disguised as a news story reported that Zuckerberg was leaving the company in order to sell skin care products. The hoax report was published on the web site GetInkNews.co as you can see below.
However, there is no truth to this image. The fake news article is full of misleading information, such as digitally manipulated images that appear to show Zuckerberg with celebrities such as Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Oprah Winfrey, Savannah Guthrie, and former President Barack Obama, along with fake quotes from them endorsing “EcoMaxx” skin care products as you can see below.
However, Perry nor any of the other referenced celebrities have endorsed this product, and the web site took unrelated images of Zuckerberg and various celebrities (the image of Katy Perry was taken in 2011) to make it seem as if they had endorsed Zuckerberg’s skin care line together, according to Snopes.
The advertisement also claimed that Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were giving away free samples of the product as long as customers paid for shipping and handling.
ZUCKERBERG GIVES PRODUCTS AWAY FOR FREE!
So, what if you aren’t rich or famous? Chan and Zuckerberg don’t care. After all, they are already worth more than $556 billion.
“We aren’t in this to make a fortune,” Chan told a friend recently. “We already have amassed…
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