Just How Tall Is Mark Zuckerberg? An Investigation

There’s something odd about almost every single one of Mark Zuckerberg’s public photos.

Check them out:

 

Zuckerberg never looks short in any of his photos, which is a little odd considering that… he is short. He only reaches 5’7″ (which is just over 170 cm, about 7cm less than average).

And hey, Zuck, if you’re reading this: don’t worry about it. Being a little short doesn’t matter. Martin Luther King Jr was 5’7″. So was Winston Churchill. Tom Cruise is 5’7″! Elton John, Lionel Messi, Salvador Dali, Steven Spielberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald — all 5’7. You’ve got plenty of great company, don’t let it get you down.

Regardless, Zuckerberg and his media team use sneaky tactics to hide his below average stature: often, photos are taken from a low angle to make any height difference hard to discern. There are A LOT of photos of Zuckerberg sitting down, or with children, or with his (shorter) wife.

But it’s alright — whenever Zuckerberg is put under immense pressure, and has one million more important things to worry about, he ignores any insecurities he has about his height and focusses on the problems at hand, right? Nah.

At this week’s super-serious Congressional hearings, Zuckerberg used a booster seat to make himself look taller:

Before Zuckerberg took his seat to confront US politicians, the offending booster seat was placed on his chair, allowing him to sit four inches higher.

Stop infantilizing Mark Zuckerberg! Also, here’s his booster seat. (Photographs by Evy Mages.) pic.twitter.com/MeKwDZwIEF

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) April 10, 2018

I’m not sure how much this plan has helped him. Over the past couple of days, Zuckerberg has had to admit a few tough new details about Facebook and its recent scandals.

In one awkward encounter, he admitted that he would not want to publicly share the names of the people he has messaged.

He also admitted that Facebook’s poor response to claims that Russia used the site to influence the 2016 US elections was “one of my greatest regrets”.

Zuckerberg’s height isn’t the only thing he wants to boost, either: he said that the company would bolster its current security and content review staff to over 20,000 people by the end of 2018.

The ‘berg also confirmed that his company was working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into foreign election meddling, but didn’t go into more detail, saying that the “work with the special counsel is confidential”.