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Mark Zuckerberg's Great American Road Trip

He sees it as a way to "get a broader perspective" to run Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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IN March, Mark Zuckerberg visited Mother Emanuel in Charleston, South Carolina, an African Episcopal Methodist church that was the site of a mass murder by a white supremacist. Last month, he went to Dayton, Ohio, to sit down with recovering opioid addicts at a rehabilitation centre. And he spent an afternoon in Blanchardville, Wisconsin, with Jed Gant, whose family has owned a dairy and beef cattle farm for six generations.

These were all stops along a road trip by Mr Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, across the United States this year. His goal: to visit every state in the union and learn more about a sliver of the nearly two billion people who regularly use the...

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