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The Best of 2025: Zuck you all. Meta’s boss is back in steal mode

Simon Thomsen - January 5, 2026 4 MIN READ

Over the Summer break, Startup Daily is republishing key stories from 2025. This opinion piece from editor Simon Thomsen first appeared in March as news emerged of Meta’s use of Library Genesis, an online warehouse of stolen intellectual property, to train its AI, emerged. This year marks 20 years since Mark Zuckberg launched Facebook, having… Read more »

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Zuck you all. Meta’s boss is back in steal mode

Simon Thomsen - March 25, 2025 4 MIN READ

This year marks 20 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, having kicked it off as The Facebook in 2004. He was already notorious for Facemash, the “hot or not” site that ranked Harvard students by their attractiveness, which he created in late 2003. Zuckerberg hacked into house face book websites at the university to get… Read more »