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Facebook Founders So Over Talking To Each Other

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ABOUT FACE Zuckerberg, Moscovitz (inset) (Photo: Gety Images)
Most assume that alleged code stealer Mark Zuckerberg is the sole founder of Facebook, given that he's usually the one awkwardly discussing the company while wearing Adidas flip-flops at important business conferences and summits. But there are actually two others who have publicly been granted "co-founder" status: Zuck's Harvard classmates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Hughes left Facebook to run Barack Obama's Internet campaign. Now, Valleywag reports that Moskovitz, the company's VP of engineering, got into some kind of spat with Zuckerberg that culminated in Moskovitz requesting that his bio and picture be taken off of the company's PR website.

The details surrounding the fight are sketchy—Moskovitz actually calls bullshit on the whole story in the Valleywag comments section, and the sources we contacted at Facebook deny that a rift between the two co-founders exists. But Valleywag's theory is that Zuckerberg once jokingly referred to his former roommate "expendable" in a newspaper story, which Moskovitz maybe didn't interpret as a joke. Which actually sounds like a perfectly plausible explanation given that these guys are only like 14 years old.

For what it's worth, Moskovitz's picture has since been put back up on the site, but his job title has been changed from VP to "technical lead." So passive aggressive!

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