Facebook Hoax Being Shared Again On Social Media

Following the birth of their daughter, Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, pledged to gradually donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, aimed at tackling some of the world’s biggest problems like disease, poverty and clean energy.

An example of the erroneous post.

Variations of the hoax message have been posted online, with some praising Zuckerberg for his “forward-thinking generosity” and others saying they saw the story verified on “Good Morning America”, which never ran any story about the message but did accurately report Zuckerberg’s original planned billion donation to charity, as did many other media outlets.

As Tech Insider notes, a message circulating on Facebook excitedly suggests that “people like you and me” can earn a piece of Zuckerberg’s wealth by simply copying and pasting a message to their feed.

“All you have to do is copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY”.

As anyone who has been on the Internet more than a day might have guessed, this post is not accurate.

According to Inquisitr, there are several versions of the post going around which vary in telling users to like, share or copy and paste a status for a chance to be one of 1,000 users who will divide Zuckerberg’s billions between them. There is no benefit to these types of hoaxes, except for the creator to watch gullible people fall for the lie.

The hoax claims that lucky Facebook users could win $4.5 million by sharing and liking the chain message.

Such hoaxes have been around way before social media was even around.

A far-reaching Facebook status that claims Mark Zuckerberg will personally make you a millionaire is still making the rounds.