BBC Announces Mark Zuckerberg Documentary To Celebrate 20 Years Of Facebook

Believe it or not, we’re inching closer to the 20-year mark since Mark Zuckerberg unleashed Facebook onto the internet. To commemorate two decades of the world’s most popular social media site, BBC Factual will be creating a three-part documentary series on the platform’s founder. 

“As the 20th anniversary of Facebook approaches, there’s never been a better time to tell the story of its founder—and to assess the seismic impact of his work on world culture,” quipped Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Science and Natural History at BBC Factual.

Naturally, the Facebook of today—and its parent company, Meta—is almost unrecognizable from the early days of its release, when a teenage Zuckerberg created a simple site on February 4, 2004, with the goal of helping college students connect with one another. 

As such, the documentary will seek to take viewers behind the scenes at the technology behemoth, with access to key players, insider testimonies, personal journals, and a rare archive to tell “the ultimate inside story” of one of the internet’s foremost networks.

“At a time when Facebook is transforming its vision, this is a key moment to explore the story of Zuckerberg—the man who got us here; to look back at events and the remarkable changes he has unleashed, and dig into the mind and motivations of the individual whose vision we are all now a part of—whether we choose to be or not,” concludes the BBC in a press release. 

[via Realscreen and BBC Factual, cover image via Frédéric Legrand | Dreamstime.com]