The social media platform 'Facebook' was founded by :

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Correct — A, Mark Zuckerberg. He launched 'Thefacebook' from his Harvard dormitory on 4 February 2004 along with fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, and has led the company as CEO ever since. The site dropped the 'the' to become Facebook in 2005, and the parent company was renamed Meta Platforms in October 2021.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Musk is associated with Tesla and SpaceX; in social media he was a buyer, not a founder — he acquired Twitter in October 2022 and renamed it X.  (c) Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 — an operating-system and software company, with no role in founding Facebook.  (d) Dorsey is a co-founder of Twitter (2006) and of the payments company Square (now Block) — a different platform altogether.

Concept: MPPSC's computer-awareness block regularly asks students to attach each major digital platform to its founder, its owner and its purpose. Facebook began in 2004 as a campus network at Harvard and grew into the world's largest social network; its parent company, renamed Meta Platforms in 2021, also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. Knowing the founder–platform–parent-company chain answers most such questions in one step.

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