'Iraq War did not inspire Facebook', says CEO's classmate from Havard

Mark Zuckerberg's classmate called him out for making a statement that was 'where near truth' on October 22, during his speech about freedom of expression at Georgetown University. founder of social media giant said  early version of Facebook was inspired after hearing a lot of important perspectives about origin of Iraq War, due to debates that took place on Harvard campus back in 2003. However, that may t be case according to most of early users of website. 

Ruben Gallego, an Iraq War Veteran and also classmate of Mark Zuckerberg claims that he remembers debates that happened on campus but Facebook's early version, which was only available for university students, at time was just designed to be a “cleaner” version of My. This statement completely contricts Zuckerberg's claims Facebook being inspired by his early years which me him want to create a for people to have a voice to share experiences.

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'That's t what it was'

claims of Facebook CEO shifting its history in order to impress  Republicans who believe social networks stifle conservative speech, as well as to market himself as part of liberal resistance. Ar early user from 2005 broke down earliest features which were t about free speech 

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Zuckerberg defends 'free speech'

Facebook says it won't remove 'newsworthy' content that goes against its community standards. Zuckerberg has defended Facebook's refusal to take down content it considers newsworthy “even if it goes against our standards”. Techlogy companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are all reportedly trying to be in charge of internet content but at same time, y are also avoiding infringing on First Amendment rights. This has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that could spawn violence. shift follows mass shootings in which suspects have posted racist screeds online or orwise expressed hateful views or streamed ims of attacks. However, Zuckerberg has also compared social media's capability to start a dialogue with 'fourth estate' which is referred to as media.

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(With inputs from ncies)