The Most Accurate Part Of The Social Network Isn't What You Think

Without getting into everything "The Social Network" got wrong about the true story, it's fair to say Zuckerberg sees it as a deeply flawed portrayal of himself and the history of his company. When the movie came out, he tried to play it cool. Speaking at Stanford University's Startup School in October 2010, a couple of weeks after "The Social Network" hit movie theaters, he joked that he didn't need to talk about Facebook's "old days," because "A movie just came out that is 100 percent accurate" (via CBS News).

More recently, Zuckerberg has admitted that inaccuracies in the movie did bother him. At a public Q&A session at Facebook's headquarters in 2014, he said of "The Social Network" that, "They just kind of made up a bunch of stuff that I found kind of hurtful" (via The Guardian). However, he added that the filmmakers did go to impressive lengths "to get some interesting details correct like the design of the office."

In particular, he was blown away by the costumes. According to Entertainment Weekly, at that speech to Stanford University's Startup School in 2010, Zuckerberg said, "Every single shirt or fleece [in "The Social Network"] is actually a shirt or fleece that I own."