Mark Zuckerberg denies creating Facebook to ‘find a girlfriend’ as he slams ‘weird’ Jesse Eisenberg movie plot

Mark Zuckerberg has once again criticized The Social Network, claiming the movie got his story wrong.

The Facebook founder, who rarely comments on the 2010 film, recently spoke on The Colin and Samir Show podcast, where he called the experience of watching it “weird.”

Zuckerberg revealed that he took his entire company to see the movie when it was released. While the film got some details right, like his wardrobe and other minor facts, he said the overall narrative was “completely wrong.”

He said, “It was weird, man.”

“They got all these very specific details of what I was wearing, or these specific things correct, but then the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all this stuff was completely wrong.”

He dismissed the idea that he built Facebook to impress a girl, which is a central theme in the movie.

Zuckerberg said, “The whole arc is like, I’m somehow motivated by trying to find a girlfriend, [but] I was dating Priscilla before I started Facebook.”

“And then you have this whole stuff about - it’s an unfortunate part of the internet - how people make up a lot of the founding mythology to fit what they want.”

He also addressed another common misconception portrayed in the movie. Many believe that FaceMash, a website he created as a prank to rate students’ attractiveness, was the precursor to Facebook.

He clarified that FaceMash was a completely separate project unrelated to the founding of Facebook.

“It is true that I made a bunch of other websites and stuff when I was at Harvard, but people cast it as if FaceMash, that prank thing that I made, was the precursor to Facebook, I guess maybe because it has ‘face’ in the name. It was completely separate from Facebook.”

The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, was based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires.

The film starred Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins.

There’s been plenty of talk about a possible sequel to The Social Network, but nothing has been officially confirmed yet.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has expressed interest in revisiting the story, especially focusing on Facebook’s involvement in major events like the January 6 Capitol riots.

On an episode of The Town podcast podcast, Sorkin remarked, “I blame Facebook for January 6,” implying that a sequel could explore the platform’s broader impact over the years.

Director David Fincher has also admitted discussing a sequel with Sorkin but called the project “a can of worms,” suggesting that tackling such a complex story wouldn’t be easy.