A video purportedly showing Mark Zuckerberg announcing that closure of Facebook is a digitally altered hoax.
CLAIM: Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video that he was shutting down Facebook.
RATING: HOAX (Fake)
ORIGIN: Most internet users have come across numerous fake photographs in the online world, but digitally altered videos (at least convincing ones) are a relatively new phenomenon in 2018. So when a piece of highly edited footage purportedly showing Mark Zuckerberg announcing that he was closing the Facebook social media network started to spread online, many viewers came thinking that it might be real.
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