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Rise of Facebook: What the movie tells us about founder Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg would have been wise to pay attention to the Facebook-related initiatives Soros has supported over the years

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Protesters from the pressure group Avaaz demonstrate against Facebook outside Portcullis House in London. (Photo: Reuters)

Jim Rutenberg | NYT
Everything we needed to know about Facebook was right in front of our faces, on the big screen, in 2010.

Come with me on this journey back in time, to the AMC Mountainside 10, on Route 22 in New Jersey, where I first saw “The Social Network.”

At the time, I was rooting for the young Mark Zuckerberg to get the better of the people trying to hold him back. He was an unusual movie protagonist, introverted and inconsiderate, but wasn’t it time for the geeks to take the power from the old guard? For the underdogs to beat the establishment?

When I