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Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network Aren't Real

The new film about Mark Zuckerberg is dramatic, well-constructed, and lots of fun. It's also, in no small part, fictional. The Daily Beast’s David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World explains what's fact and what's fantasy.

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Let's get one thing out of the way— The Social Network is a compelling movie that maintains a taut sense of drama from its opening moments to the final scene.

But, like most movies drawn from actual events, it is a pastiche—an amalgam of fact and fiction, based upon the partly...

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