June 18, 2004

Harvard Students Say Thefacebook Is a Rip-Off of Their Idea

By BROCK READ

Imitation, according to the old maxim, is the sincerest form of flattery.

But that's small consolation to a trio of students at Harvard University, who say that Thefacebook -- the immensely popular social-networking site started by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate (The Chronicle, May 28) -- is just a rip-off of an idea they began working on first. (Mr. Zuckerberg denies that charge.)

Divya K. Narendra, Cameron S.H. Winklevoss, and Tyler O.H. Winklevoss founded

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