Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg is not giving $4.5 billion to 1,000 random Facebook users

What a time to be alive: According to a much-shared Facebook post, you only need to be on Facebook to enter a magical lottery of sorts, in which the Facebook co-founder and CEO will give out $4.5 million to 1,000 random users

The only problem with this, and every similar post in history, is that it's a hoax

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The message being massively shared on Facebook comes in several variants, with some claiming it's not a hoax as it's been confirmed by this or that media outlet (see example below). The message further claims that 10% of Zuckerberg's $45 billion-worth Facebook stock will be randomly shared among 1,000 users who share the message further Read more...

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