‘Mark Zuckerberg Deleting Facebook’ Video Still Fooling Facebook Users
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What the fact-checkers found
On April 1, 2018 filmmaker Andrew Oleck published a rather clever satirical video that supposedly shows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announcing that he will be closing Facebook down for good.
The video, titled “A World Without Facebook”, appears to show Zuckerberg discussing his concerns about the negative impact of Facebook on people’s lives and declaring that he will be deleting Facebook in order to deal with these concerns once and for all.
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