DETROIT – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not giving you any money.
A post has been circulating for several weeks with the message that Zuckerberg will be giving away millions of dollars to Facebook users. Here is one variation of the post below.
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Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is giving away $45 billion of Facebook stock.
What you may not have heard is that he plans to give 10% of it away to people like YOU and ME! All you have to do is copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY and tag 5-10 of your friends.
At midnight PST, Facebook will search through the day’s posts and award 1000 people with $4.5 million EACH as a way of saying thank you for making Facebook such a powerful vehicle for connection and philanthropy.
The thing is a complete hoax. Not true, at all, in any capacity, a Facebook spokesperson told NBC.Â
This joins the huge list of Facebook hoaxes, including the "pay for privacy" hoax, which has circulated several times since 2009.
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