A a digital archive of all public utterances of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
While we’re still catching up with the last few months of Zuckerberg activity across various channels, we rushed to archive his recent announcement of the end of Meta’s fact-checking programs and the related appareance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
In 2019, a cache of leaked Facebook documents connected to litigation by Six4Three against the social media company were made publicly available by NBC News and other outlets. The files include approximately 7,000 pages, of which about 4,000 are internal Facebook communications such as emails, web chats, notes, presentations and spreadsheets, primarily from 2011 to 2015.
We have reviewed the documents and have archived materials that include direct communications (emails, chats) from Mark Zuckerberg.
On October 28, 2021, Zuckerberg’s keynote address at Connect 2021 included two major announcements: the formation of a new parent company Meta, and the new focus on developing the metaverse.
In the weeks that followed, Zuckerberg was interviewed by assorted media outlets and made numerous Facebook posts about the new endeavors. We’re archiving them all, and here’s a sampling.
The Announcement:
Interviews:
Facebook Posts:
These past few weeks have seen the publication of The Facebook Files from The Wall Street Journal featuring information provided by a whistleblower detailing Facebook’s internal knowledge of numerous ways in which the platform creates societal harm. Frances Haugen came forward as the whistleblower on 60 Minutes and later testified before Congress.
Zuckerberg has since responded to Haugen’s accusations in an email sent to Facebook employees. We have that statement archived here.
We’ve been busy in 2021 keeping The Zuckerberg Files updated with the latest Zuckerberg posts and appearances. He’s made dozens of posts to his Facebook page this year — many of which have a more personal touch, including some of the first posts with his kids (here and here, for example). All of these are in the archive.
Other updates include:
We’re also working on a solution to start archiving photos Zuckerberg posts to his Facebook and Instagram accounts. More on that soon…
Over the past few weeks we’ve updated the archive with some random Zuckerberg appearances dating between 2008-2011.
We also continue to regularly update with any recent Facebook posts or other press events.
On July 29, 2020, the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee held a hearing titled, “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple.” In the hearing, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook faced questions about whether their company’s practices created an anti-competitive environment.
Zuckerberg’s testimony is archived here (video/transcript), but the Judiciary Committee also released numerous relevant documents uncovered during their investigation of these companies.
We have archived the documents that include direct correspondence from Mark Zuckerberg, and converted the PDFs to be more searchable for our users:
We have uploaded three videos and (draft) transcripts for recent Congressional hearings that included testimony by Mark Zuckerberg:
We have also uploaded various quarterly financial earnings conference calls:
We have recently updated the archive with a few newly found videos of Zuckerberg from 2005-2006:
Since March 3, 2020, Mark Zuckerberg has posted dozens of notes, and conducted numerous interviews, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. All but 2 of his posts on Facebook during this time have been related to Facebook’s response to COVID-19.
As always, we have archived all the transcripts and related video files at The Zuckerberg Files, and will update this curated list as needed:
The Zuckerberg Files