

That’s maybe quite a bit more sunscreen than I thought I was wearing.” Zuckerberg made the admission in a live chat with Adam Mosseri. J10:44 AM EDT F acebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is back in the internet spotlight, but it’s not for testifying before Congress or the ongoing advertising boycott over Facebook’s hate. “But when you’re eFoiling down the coast of Hawaii, and it’s beautiful and it just feels like it’s awesome - and then you come back online and you see that’s the photo, that’s what you look like - it’s like, OK. “I’m not a person who’s under the illusion that I look particularly cool at any point with what I’m doing,” he said, according to The Verge. In September, The Verge reported details from a staff question-and-answer session that Zuckerberg held shortly after the notorious sunscreen incident. I laugh about it and I think it’s pretty funny.”īut it’s not the first time Zuckerberg has tried to explain the curious amount of sunscreen on his face, and his latest clarification is a departure from those he’s offered in the past. I’m happy to give the internet some laughs,” he said. “If someone wants to post a sunscreen meme, it’s cool. The Facebook founder tried to appear in good spirits about the whole incident. Zuckerberg’s sunscreen look reminded some of Elizabeth I. No one needs to be wearing that much sunscreen.” “I really should have thought that one through more,” he added. “I noticed there was this paparazzi guy following us and, so I was like, ‘Oh I don’t want him to recognize me, so you know what I’m gonna do? I’m just gonna put a ton of sunscreen on my face,’” Zuckerberg said. Photos of Mark Zuckerberg surfing in Hawaii, his face white with a layer of sunscreen, has given the internet a canonical entry into the historical ledger of Zuck's looks.

Zuckerberg acknowledged that he’s “a pretty pale person” and he gets burned doing outside activities in places like Hawaii, adding that “it’s even more extreme than that.” Zuckerberg addressed the incident Tuesday in a livestreamed chat with Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, claiming he didn’t really think he needed all that sunscreen to protect against the burn. Now-infamous images of the tech founder riding an eFoil surfboard went viral last year, drawing comparisons to Batman villain the Joker and others like Queen Elizabeth I, who died in 1603. Meta looks to add ‘retention-driving hooks’ as Threads users flee ‘Twitter-killer’ appįacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the images of him caked in sunscreen was a failed effort to disguise himself from the paparazzi while surfing in Hawaii. Inside Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg’s falling out over the metaverseīlank Face: Mark Zuckerberg spotted at Taylor Swift concert sporting face gems, beaded braceletsĮlon Musk touts record number of X users as Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads stumbles
