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- Mark Zuckerberg saw Facebook through a financially successful decade that saw the company's share price rise since its IPO in 2012.
- He also got married to his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan, had two children, and bought several houses and properties.
- Despite personal and professional successes, the latter half of the decade was marked by scandals and congressional hearings for Zuckerberg that led to increased criticism and scrutiny of the CEO and his social media company.
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Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg spent the decade overseeing Facebook's rise in prominence in daily life. From the company's 2012 IPO, to buying Instagram and WhatsApp, it has continued to be successful and has made Zuckerberg one of the richest people in the world.
Although the company has been successful, its last decade has also been full of scandals and accusations, ranging from a psychological experiment conducted on 70,000 unconsenting Facebook users which examined how changes in the News Feed could impact their mental health, to claims the social network was censoring content.
And then there was Facebook's role in spreading fake news - which was used to incite a genocide in Myanmar - and the revelation of mishandled Facebook user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal being utilized to target voters in the 2016 US presidential election. More recently, Facebook's decision not to fact check political ads has drawn ire from politicians, journalists, and even the company's employees.
Scroll on to see what Mark Zuckerberg got up to this decade.
