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The Social Network
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Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg sits at a computer in a dorm room, wearing a gray GAP hoodie, with another young man seated and smiling in the background. The Social Network
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Article Contributors

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  • Arpit Nayak
    Arpit Nayak is an editor at Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Updated for release of The Social Reckoning.
  • Arpit Nayak
Oct 09, 2026
New article added.
  • Arpit Nayak
Oct 06, 2026
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