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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Illuminati Logo Revealed

by Jordan Yerman | June 4, 2010 at 02:49 pm

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SFWeekly Reveals Mark Zuckerberg's Hidden Hoodie Facebook Logo

Besides choking at the D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also did quite a bit of sweating, finally removing his hoodie. Kara Swisher remarked on the weird logo printed on the inside of the hoodie, asking Zuckerberg, "What are you, in some kind of cult?"

SFWeekly reconstructed that logo.

Mark Zuckerberg's Sweaty, Fumbling D8 Interview

Turns out the Facebook "illuminati" insignia does not exist as part of Facebook's marketing scheme, nor does anyone at Facebook admit to having ever seen it before.

The logo depicts the elements of social graph, platform and stream coming together, with the slogan, "Facebook: Making the World More Open and Connected".

If the logo was an open piece of marketing fodder, it would just be discounted as a silly Illuminati-looking logo, on par with the Facebook quail. It's also easy to write this off as Harvard attendee Zuckerberg being a little to keen on secret society machinations. And we are sure conspiracy theorists will try to decipher this, remarking on how the intersects of the arrows produce a slightly off-kilter Star of David in the center.

A few questions: