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Everything You’ve Read About The Winklevoss Twins Is Wrong

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If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. With a new book out this month, the author of Facebook’s origin story reconsiders the villains he helped create. Tech gurus Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss. / Getty Images I’ve always believed that if the Winklevoss twins didn’t exist in real life, Hollywood would have invented them. As portrayed nearly a decade ago in The Social Network, the movie adapted from my 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the college-age pair cut quite a celluloid spectacle: chiseled, privileged, painfully blond 6-foot-5 identical-twin Olympic rowers—the perfect foils to the über-nerdy, socially awkward Mark Zuckerberg, caught up in the Shakespearian drama at the heart of the founding of Facebook, the social network that grew from a college experiment to a company that now dominates much of our lives. In my—and Aaron

Everything You’ve Read About Harvard’s Winklevoss Twins Is Wrong With a new book out this month, the author of Facebook’s origin story reconsiders the villains he helped create. By Ben Mezrich · 5/29/2019, 11:02 a.m. Keep your weekends full of the coolest things to do around Boston with our weekly Weekender newsletter. Tech gurus Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss. / Getty Images I’ve always believed that if the Winklevoss twins didn’t exist in real life, Hollywood would have invented them. As portrayed nearly a decade ago in The Social Network , the movie adapted from my 2009 book

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