“The Social Network”, a movie about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, set for release by Sony Pictures on October 1, is already generating a huge controversy. 

The film (see the trailer above) portrays Facebook as founded on a series of betrayals in Harvard’s dorms. Zuckerberg, at 26 a billionaire, is featured as a villain and an antihero who almost created Facebook to get girls or to gain power. 

He is trying not to react angrily. “The movie is fiction,” he declared.