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    Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook into a behemoth whose power he underestimates

    by By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2017 4 minutes

    When it comes to business, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is undeniably a visionary.

    He made a big bet that paid off on photo-sharing app Instagram, charged full bore into mobile when others stood pat, and recognized early on the fortune that could be made in advertising by mining all aspects of his users' lives down to the square footage of their homes.

    But Zuckerberg's prescient skills seem to waver when the social and cultural intricacies of the real world leak onto his ubiquitous platform.

    Defensive at times, like when he initially disputed the premise fake news on Facebook may have influenced the

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