A report in Iran’s Tehran Times claims that “the King is very upset with Mark Zuckerberg for allowing the revolt to get out of control.” Yes, I’m sure it’s Facebook’s fault and has nothing to do with the living conditions in the Middle East. The report has all the markings of a conspiracy theory but it would be fun if the world worked this way, wouldn’t it? The claim:
“In a personal meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and King Abdullah on Jan 25, 2011, Zuckerberg had promised that he would not allow any revolt pages to be formed on Facebook even while he allowed Egypt and Libya revolt pages to be formed.
Left with no option, Abdullah advised by Goldman Sachs has decided to buy out Facebook and ‘clean out the weeds’. The offer on the table is $150 billion. Facebook balance sheet was shown to King Abdullah and his kingdom advisors had mentioned that it is not even worth $1 billion given that it generates no profit. But the King threw the report into the dustbin and fired his advisors and decided to hand over the investment banking mandate to Goldman Sachs who put the value at $150 billion. The deal will be all cash.
Most analysts believe that Zuckerberg will not take the offer and will wait for King Abdullah to up the offer to at least $500 billion. In the meanwhile king Abdullah has now logged on the Facebook and was busy profiling some of the models in the Goldman Sachs presentation.”