Mark Zuckerberg, the company's co-founder, and CEO has been personally hurt by the Facebook shutdown.

New Delhi: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been personally hurt by the shutdown. In just a few hours, his fortune plummeted to $7 billion (approximately Rs 52,000 crore) and he slipped to number one on the list of billionaires. Shares of Facebook also fell 5 percent. Even the shares have fallen 15 percent since mid-September.

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Zuckerberg has lost nearly 19 billion in assets since September 13. The CEO of Facebook's fortune has shrunk to $ 120.9 billion, taking him to fifth place in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Earlier, he was fourth on the list.

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On September 13, the Wall Street Journal began publishing a series based on an internal Facebook document, which revealed that Facebook was struggling with several problems with its product - such as damaging girls' mental health via Instagram and Misinformation about it.

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The reports caught the attention of government officials and were revealed by Whistleblower itself on Monday. In response, Facebook made it clear that political polarization is a complex issue, for which you can't just blame technology.