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Zuckerman vs. The Facebook Machine

The Algorithm That Ate a Nation and the Man Who Built Something Better, a Digital Marketing Agency that Runs on Mobile Phones.

(Alan has a few last steps with Apple, Google and the State of Florida before it goes live on app stores but its already running on a few select phones including Alan's in Test Flight mode.)

Once pitched as a utopian tool for social connection, Facebook has become a digital behemoth that many say manipulates democracy and social cohesion alike. Its impact on the American psyche, public discourse, and global information economy has been well documented by journalists, whistleblowers, and regulators.

In 2021, internal documents leaked by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed the truth: Facebook’s algorithm amplifies divisive and polarizing content because that content keeps users hooked, boosting advertising revenue - The Guardian

“Facebook knew it was profiting from polarization.” - MIT Technology Review

Facebook also sold ads to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, whose disinformation campaign reached over 126 million Americans during the 2016 election-Washington Post.

Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress, but never faced meaningful consequences always deflecting with vague nods to “scale” and “complexity.”

🌍 Global Repercussions: What Other Nations Think

The European Union repeatedly warned Meta about GDPR violations and invasive tracking.

Australia passed a law forcing Facebook to compensate news organizations.

India and Brazil investigated the platform’s role in election-related violence.

Canada floated a proposal to ban targeted political advertising altogether.

The global consensus? Facebook’s targeting model is opaque, manipulative, and dangerous to civic integrity.

🎥 The Message Heard Around the World — From Denmark to Menlo Park
In this powerful video from Danish broadcaster TV 2 Facebook is called out Meta's indifference. The campaign, titled "Dear Meta," is more than just a local protest — it's a global wake-up call.

“False content that involves abuse, scams, and exploitation is not just a Danish issue. It is a problem worldwide when people start to doubt who they can trust.”
– TV 2 Denmark

The video’s reception has gone viral because it says what millions feel: Meta must take real responsibility for the harmful content, manipulation, and criminal activity its platforms allow to thrive. While Meta hides behind algorithms and scale, the public is demanding transparency and accountability.

📣 “So, dear Meta. Your platforms. Your responsibility.”

📺 When the Truth Is Streamed by the Source
In an ironic twist, Facebook’s own platform features promotional clips for The Social Dilemma a Netflix documentary that exposes the very dangers the company profits from: surveillance capitalism, algorithmic manipulation, and consumer data exploitation. The film details how platforms like Facebook prioritize engagement over truth, addiction over well-being, and profits over people.

And yet, Facebook keeps the ads rolling. The warnings are real — but the system doesn’t change.

💻 And That’s Why Alan Founded LocalTechSecurity.com
While Meta monetizes risk, Alan Zuckerman created a different kind of platform. At LocalTechSecurity.com, his mission is simple: equip local businesses, governments, and schools with tools to protect themselves from the digital threats big tech ignores.

Where Facebook lets the algorithm run wild, Alan builds firewalls literally and figuratively. Where Meta harvests data, Alan defends privacy.

Because standing by isn't an option not when you are the target.

The Mischaracterization of Alan Zuckerman

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Alan Zuckerman is not antisemitic. He is a proud supporter of his local temple, a great uncle, and a driven Jewish American man misunderstood and mistreated by elitist North Shore cliques in the legal, medical, and fraternity communities.

Even his own sister a doctor took on a superior tone over the years but Alan still loves her and wants to be her friend. That's why he flew in for Matthew's Bar Mitzvah. There is even footage of Uncle Alan and Aunt Katie saying the "Borei Pri HaGafen" (בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן), which means "Who creates the fruit of the vine."

Alan looks heavier in the photos above than he does currently on the home page of this website because he was spending his days stuck at a desk selling 330 trials of a mobile pool contractor app with a 7% usage rate that doesn't work under the watchful eyes of PoolCorp and simultaneously going through a 90 day interview process with a local pastor who clearly hates anybody that isn't pale white or racist.

Alan's vitals from his physical last week are listed below.

• He Lost 15 lbs

• 120/88 blood pressure

• Heart rate 93

• Oxygen 97

• Respiration 18

• Temperature 98.2

Alan is happy to report that he is starting to look himself again after enduring daily philosophical marketing battles & 5 days a week office commutes to sit in a library with a creepy pastor from the local TV station only viewed by elderly consumers ages 65+.

The creepy pastor told Alan he would have to sell $650,000 of digital media before his 1st commission check. Mr. Zuckerman countered the offer the local pastor called it "a Mickey Mouse #". Mr. Zuckerman is glad to report that he values local businesses, is not an ancient relic from Broadcast Media past & does not consider $650,000 a Mickey Mouse #.

Mr. Zuckerman intends on instructing many of his DMCs how to sell north of 1 Million of Digital Advertising just like he did in Chicago before tripling a national sales force. After Mr. Zuckerman accomplished this goal, he traveled to Orlando to go to Disney World to meet Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and of course the pastor's favorite character, which has to be Dumbo considering the fact that he is "building a digital team" and can barely operate his own computer.

Alan built his own path, fueled by data, Alantegrity, and business outcomes.

In the misinformation age, he became collateral damage:
A man punished by mistaken identity, algorithmic confusion, and bad-faith elitism.
He shares a name similar to Facebook’s founder that most people like to joke about "oh like the facebook guy right?" but that's where it ends.

🧾 Embedded Background Check: A Factual Record of Innocence

Alan never would’ve spoken out until he found himself professionally reporting to:

• A man now employed at Amazon who once sold mushrooms at a Phish concert in Maryland

• A LocaliQ (Gannett) employee who shoplifted from a convenience store in Iowa

• There’s a strong and thoughtful addition that ties Alan’s personal wellness, the North Shore, and broader concerns about overmedication together — with citations to support the critique of psychiatric meds even though his former director said "the local business digital model is now dead Alan and everyone is on drugs just like me."

Clarity, Alan Zuckerman’s Break From the North Shore Prescription Culture
Alan Zuckerman isn’t on any medications currently sold or prescribed in Chicago’s North Shore and that’s not just a personal decision. It’s a reflection of a deeper, data-backed realization: many psychiatric medications do more harm than good, especially when misprescribed or overused. Mr. Zuckerman takes vitamins in the morning and ashwaganda or melatonin in the evening and he's fine.

Articles in respected outlets like The New York Times and Psychology Today have exposed the dangers of long-term psychiatric drug use — including withdrawal symptoms, dependency, and emotional blunting.

The North Shore made up of places like Deerfield, Highland Park, and Northbrook has quietly normalized pharmaceutical interventions for stress, adolescence, and even grief. But Alan chose another path: mental fitness, clarity, and the pursuit of purpose through tech, family, and entrepreneurship.

💬 “You can’t medicate your way out of a broken system,” he says.
Instead, you build a better one.

📲 The Scroll Never Stops on the North Shore But at What Cost?
In Chicago’s North Shore Deerfield, Highland Park, Northbrook Facebook is a digital artery. Local parents use it to organize playgroups, review tutors, or swap summer camp links. School board debates spill into comment wars. Events are promoted through boosted posts. It feels like community but it’s surveillance in disguise and everyone's mom, cousin and high school friend now knows exactly what they are up to at all times "on the facebook."

And that constant digital hum? It doesn’t just erode attention. It invites manipulation. The same algorithm that curates birthday wishes also spreads anxiety, comparison, and division. Teen mental health? Plummeting. Anxiety disorders? Up. And into this chaos steps a cottage industry of influencers and practitione some without real credentials pitching prescription solutions to affluent Jewish families who just want their kids to be okay.

Articles from outlets like The New York Times, Psychology Today &Tablet Magazine have highlighted this exact trend: suburban parents medicating too quickly, often under pressure from non-board-certified “experts” peddling comfort through SSRIs. In reality, it's a feedback loop — social media stirs the problem, and Big Pharma, through local gatekeepers commonly referred to as amateur comedians with no more skill set than a south side drug dealer, sell the “solutions" and only earn revenue "on the comeback."

Alan Zuckerman stepped off that loop.

He is no longer on any psychiatric medications sold in the North Shore — and he’s vocal about why. What was pitched as wellness felt more like sedation. And instead of relying on prescriptions, Alan doubled down on clarity, integrity, and action.

How Facebook created social media influenced culture is impacting the workplace.

Social media isn’t the enemy—the feed is. Tools like News Feed Eradicator strip away the endless scroll while keeping access to messages, groups, and ads. No distractions, just the tools you need.

For mobile, just hide social apps from your home screen and mute notifications. Out of sight, out of mind—but still there when needed.

Why it matters:
Unfocused employees cost businesses thousands each year in lost productivity. Protect your team’s attention with smarter design, not willpower.

From Farm Animals to Feeds: How One Man’s Awkward Harvard Experience Reshaped the World

It’s wild to think that Facebook—this trillion-dollar influence machine—was born out of Mark Zuckerberg’s college-era frustration. The original concept? A hot-or-not style site where Harvard students could compare classmates to farm animals using stolen dorm directory photos. Yeah. That happened.

And yet, those same infantile impulses ranking, judging, comparing are still baked into the DNA of social media today. The platforms just got shinier. What started as a digital yearbook for bored undergrads metastasized into the world’s most addictive dopamine engine, disguised as “connection.”

Zuck once promised to make the world “more open and connected.” Ironically, now he admits he doesn’t even follow his own friends anymore. Why? Because newsfeeds hijacked the very idea of connection—replacing genuine social utility with algorithmic noise and outrage bait.

The damage? Social media used to help us find people. Now it helps us lose focus. It was once a tool for social discovery—now it’s an assembly line for distraction. Feeds turned friendships into content. Community into competition. Presence into performance.

And in the workplace, that same feedback loop is burning payroll hours and frying attention spans. All because one guy couldn’t get a date.

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🔍 Background Check Summary: Alan Robert Zuckerman

Date Ordered: February 7, 2024

Completed: February 8, 2024

Case ID: WPS-279709516

Role: Software Business Development Specialist

Requested By: SCP Distributors LLC

✅ Employed
✅ Start-Up Founder
🚫 Criminal History: No records in Hillsborough FL, San Diego CA, Lake IL, or Cook IL
📝 Note: Pinellas County is clear too, but not listed due to a recent move from Tampa Palms to Clearwater only to be closer to Pinch-A-Penny HQ

✅ Verified Social Security
✅ Confirmed Residential History (Chicago, San Diego, Buffalo Grove, Tampa)

🔒 Final Result:"02/08/2024 - Based on your criteria, the overall case score is: ELIGIBLE"

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Family History: Discipline, Coaching, and Resistance

Zucker-BERGS vs. Zucker-MANS: One Enables Digital Bullies, the Other Builds Tools for Local Businesses to Win

Mark’s dad was a dentist from Long Island. Alan’s dad was a football and wrestling coach from Rogers Park

Alan’s mindset wasn’t formed in a vacuum.

His father was a respected football and wrestling coach, shaping young minds and bodies through discipline, competition, and values.

Alan followed his lead playing both football and wrestling during his youth.

Other noteworthy Zuckermans

Solly Zuckerman — WWII strategist, British government advisor. Aerial bombing analysis and civilian protection. Chief Scientific Adviser to the British government evidence-based decision-making in public policyrational leadership in times of crisis

Read More About Solly & The War On Rails

Yitzhak Zuckerman Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Ghetto Fighters' House Museum bravery, resistance, and resilience in the face of oppression

Read More About Yitzhak Zuckerman

X-Troop Secret unit of Jewish WWII commandos

Alan Zuckerman descends from a lineage of fighters who fought injustice in some of the darkest moments of modern history. One such group was No. 3 Troop of No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, better known as X-Troop — an elite British WWII unit composed largely of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe.

These men had lost their countries, their homes, and in many cases, their families — but they didn’t retreat. They trained in sabotage, interrogation, and hand-to-hand combat. They were deployed on the frontlines of D-Day and across Nazi-occupied territories. Their intelligence work directly contributed to the Allied victory, helping to dismantle Nazi infrastructure and capture high-value targets, including Gestapo officers and war criminals.

X-Troop not only disrupted enemy lines with stealth and courage, but helped reshape modern special forces doctrine. Many of their tactics were later adopted by intelligence services and elite military units around the world. Though their names were often changed to protect their families still trapped in Europe, their legacy remains etched into history as one of the war’s most effective and daring groups of resistance fighters.

Alan Zuckerman Is Not Better Than You He is Your Equal, Your Marketing Guide & Potentially Your Friend.

Let’s be clear: Alan Zuckerman is not a Zionist. He doesn’t think he’s better than you. He’s not some elitist. He’s a fighter. A man of discipline.

Years ago, Alan made a decision that should’ve been simple—go to the University of Illinois, just like his sister. It felt like the right move at the time. Familiar. Safe. But he didn’t know he’d be stepping into a culture even worse than the frat house headlines.

Alan learned what his so called friends really thought of him on the day his grandmother died—while he was grieving in silence, he discovered group chats from his own roommates in Wicker Park mocking him behind his back. The betrayal wasn’t subtle—it was sharp, performative, and cowardly. These weren’t even ZBT guys, these guys were the bottom of the north shore barrel. Eventually Alan's blonde nurse girlfriend from Joliet had to say "well maybe you should get your own place in the gold coast if they're raping deaf girls in your kitchen and trying to rape your colleague. Plus we will be able to enjoy our time alone and then we can have a better type of birthday party for you complete with dinner at the Melting Pot, A Blackhawks-Redwings Game before they were even televised where more Detroit fans were in the stands but a bright future was ahead. We can do that Instead of watching "The Prestige on a projector in a lofted former leather factory called The Sherman Brothers Building." Then afterwards we can finish up the night at any of these places below, your pick.

• Bijan’s Bistro, 663 N. State St. (River North)
• Bootlegger’s, 13 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Boss Bar, 420 N. Clark St. (River North)
• Boutique Nightclub & Social Lounge, 809 W. Evergreen Ave. (Goose Island)
• Butch McGuire’s, 20 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Buzz, 308 W. Erie St. (River North)
• Dublin’s Bar & Grill, 1050 N. State St. (Gold Coast)
• Excalibur Nightclub, 632 N. Dearborn St. (River North)
• Finn McCool’s, 15 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Frankie Z’s Tumble Inn, 435 N. Clark St. (River North)
• Funk Groove Bar, 5 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Hangge Uppe, 14 W. Elm St. (Gold Coast)
• Leg Room, 7 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Lodge, 21 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Martini Ranch, 311 W. Chicago Ave. (River North)
• McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon, 1206 N. State St. (Gold Coast)
• Moda, 25 W. Hubbard St. (River North)
• Mother Hubbard’s Sports Pub, 5 W. Hubbard St. (River North)
• Mother’s, 26 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• O’Callaghan’s, 29 W. Hubbard St. (River North)
• Pippin’s Tavern, 806 N. Rush St. (Gold Coast)
• Redhead Piano Bar, 16 W. Ontario St. (River North)
• Rednofive, 440 N. Halsted St. (River West)
• RiNo, 343 W. Erie St. (River North)
• She-Nanigan’s Irish Pub & Sports Bar, 16 W. Division St. (Gold Coast)
• Social Twenty-Five, 25 W. Hubbard St. (River North)
• Sound Bar, 226 W. Ontarios St. (River North)
• Spy Bar, 646 N. Franklin St. (River North)
• Swirl Wine Bar, 111 W. Hubbard St. (River North)
• Streeter’s Tavern, 50 E. Chicago Ave. (Gold Coast)
• Timothy O’Toole’s, 622 N. Fairbanks Ct. (Streeterville)
• Underground, 56 W. Illinois St. (River North)
• Underground Wonder Bar, 10 E. Walton St. (River North)

The same brand of juvenile cruelty dressed up as male bonding. The same sickness that turns hazing into headlines. The same immaturity that spits on wounded veterans for laughs. Whether it’s ZBT at UF or group chats in a Wicker Park apartment, it’s the same disease of false brotherhood.

Let's examine 4 different sources covering the same events that happened right here in Florida in 2015 with members of ZBT.

1. https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/us/frats-and-wounded-vets/index.html

2. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/university-of-florida-fraternity-zeta-beta-tau-expels-3-for-allegedly-spitting-on-wounded-veterans/

3. https://floridapolitics.com/archives/21997-uf-fraternity-to-close-after-charges-of-harrasing-veterans/

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Frat/comments/346npw/uf_zbt_kicked_off_campus/

And it didn’t surprise Alan. Not after what he experienced in college. He knew what real brotherhood looked like. It looked like standing for something bigger than yourself. Not humiliating others more talented, stronger, capable, better looking and better at all activities we can't speak to on TheRealAlanZuckerman.com

That’s why Alan threw away his lacrosse shorts. Why did Alan trash his skull-and-crossbones pin and walk away? Because he refuses to be associated with the performative masculinity that’s not just toxic—it’s dangerous.

Let’s not forget: hazing deaths keep happening. Bullying is no longer just physical—it’s digital, 24/7, and now algorithmically amplified on social media. The same petty games Alan experienced in college are now running unchecked across platforms, campuses, and group chats everywhere.

While frat bros sip beer and mock the very people who keep this country free, Alan still stands for the people who actually earned that freedom.

You don’t have to wear a uniform to respect one.
But if you mock the people who do, don’t be surprised when a leader such as Alan Zuckerman calls you out.

📉 Misjudged by the North Shore

Alan’s critics? They hail from Deerfield, Highland Park, and Northbrook — elite suburbs where judgment is loud and context is small.

"Deerfield, Highland Park, and Northbrook combined have fewer residents than most target email lists."

📉 A Digital Bubble with Outsized Consequences
Alan Zuckerman has long argued that the cultural weight placed on North Shore judgment is deeply out of proportion with its actual significance. In his “41 Real Facts About Alan,” he breaks it down with sharp clarity:

Deerfield, Highland Park, and Northbrook combined?
Roughly 85,000 people total.

Chicago proper?
2.7 million.

Florida?
Nearly 23 million.

California?

Over 39 million.

The United States?
More than 330 million.

Let that sink in. The judgment of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the population — less than 0.03% of America — has somehow been weaponized in social and professional circles to discredit someone like Alan Zuckerman. Not because of actions, but because of misunderstanding, mistaken identity, or outdated bias amplified through digital echo chambers.

On Facebook, that bias is supercharged. People scroll and gossip. Assumptions become narratives. And in places like the North Shore, where image, education, and perceived status are paramount, platforms like Facebook act as digital country clubs — breeding anxiety, distortion, and what Zuckerman calls “credentialism without character.”

Pair that with the overprescription of psychiatric medication, often pushed by local influencers and undertrained practitioners commonly referred to as "Amateur Comedians" by Alan Zuckerman and you have a cocktail of dysfunction hiding behind manicured lawns and monogrammed doormats along with malfunctioning mirrors because based on their social media activity they're obviously not seeing what everyone else in Chicago is seeing. Oh and that's not just their looks, its a direct window into their souls and most often, there is nothing even there, it's vacant, empty and cold just like their personalities.

Alan Zuckerman chose a different path. He opted for transparency, for facts, and for a digital business model that actually empowers communities not exploits them.

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41 Real Facts About Alan Zuckerman

So what's next for Alan Zuckerman?

Your Own Ad Store
Alan’s startup puts national digital marketing power in the hands of the bullied and the oppressed who will work harder for local business owners than most people hired at Corporate TV Stations, Newspapers, Digital Agencies & Technology Start-Ups — letting anyone run their own digital marketing agency from wherever they want, whenever they want. No Monday Morning Meetings, no 1 on 1s, just an app (that of course can directly reach Alan Zuckerman & his team of talented national partners) a bookmarks file and 2-3 trainings a week in the evening hours.

Learn more about Your Own Ad Store

🔚 Final Word: When the System Fails, You Build Your Own

Alan Zuckerman’s story is more than personal it’s a cautionary tale about digital reputation and systems that reward deception and talking behind people's backs, rather than merit.

Where Facebook thrives on chaos, Alan builds clarity.
Where the algorithm punishes integrity, he codes his own rules.
And where small minds cast doubt, results and true facts tell the real story.

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