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However, he’d gotten in enough trouble with Zuckerberg, when they launched facemash.com, a site that popped up two student photos and asked people to choose who was more attractive (see our early story on Facebook, which recounts the history). But Green, whose eyes this past Friday evening were bloodshot from overwork, is following his passion: Giving people a way to get their voice heard, at a time when political alienation and disengagement are greater than ever. Philanthropies and political parties court the older and wealthy, because they have the dollars; the average person is left with no medium to participate. In 2003, he tried to convince Zuckerberg, his computer science roommate, to build a social network dedicated to empowering people in the political process. There, he experimented online with basic precepts of political mobilization: You start out with minimal commitments, getting people to answer questions.
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