“Facebook has gotten out of control. And the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness,” Weekly World News stated as the words of Zuckerberg, who later announced that there was no such intention from Facebook.
Interestingly, Weekly World News has a long tradition in peddling nonsense tales. The satirical Web portal earlier carried stories telling that George Clooney would run for President and Alien spaceships would attack Earth in 2011. Hence, several analysts count the Facebook shutdown scoop as one among such blunders.
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