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Almost everything people know about Facebook's founding comes from a film, and the film's opening premise is fiction: Erica Albright was written for the screenplay. What is documented is stranger — 450 visitors in four hours, a handwritten settlement, $200,000 for a domain name, and a legal fight to escape a payout that later multiplied.
Three crises are being bundled into one story about a company cracking. The suit against OpenAI is real and names a Chief Hardware Officer. The 630GB of iPhone 18 Pro files came out of Tata Electronics. And Siri is not still broken — Apple bought a way out for about $1bn a year.
For two years OpenAI told the court it could not search its own training corpus. A court-ordered deposition in April produced a database of 78 million conversations and a tool built to log regurgitation. The sanctions motion asks the court to decide the fact question without the evidence.
The viral version says a hacker exposed 2 million stolen songs. The number is one line item from one of ten sources, it is ten times smaller than what Suno told a court in 2024, and the labels had the real figure in discovery two months earlier. Underneath it is a breach Suno described as involving no sensitive personal information.