The girl who supposedly started Facebook never existed — and the twins spent years fighting the best deal in the case
2026-08-21Startups
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.