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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that he's not running for president.
In recent months, Facebook's CEO has dined with a family at their home in Ohio and been photographed working on an assembly line at a Ford factory, meeting with members of the military, and even feeding a calf. But as much as such outings may look and sound like someone raising his profile for a political run, Zuckerberg insists that's not the case.
"Some of you have asked if this challenge means I'm running for public office," Zuckerberg recently wrote in a Facebook post. "I'm not."
And that wasn't the first time the 33-year-old billionaire has tried to quiet the speculation. After he ate dinner last month with the Ohio family, the chief spokeswoman for his philanthropic fund instructed the family to tell reporters Zuckerberg wasn't planning to run for office.
Zuckerberg's stops are part of plan to visit every US state this year. He says it's just to fulfill a personal challenge.
But that hasn't stopped rampant speculation about Zuckerberg's political aspirations. We've collected the most presidential highlights from Zuckerberg's whirlwind US tour so far:
Zuckerberg kicked off his US tour in January in Dallas, Texas. He was there to testify in a lawsuit against his VR company Oculus, but he found time to help plant a garden with high schoolers downtown.FacebookWhile in Dallas, he also met local police officers. "These officers do such important work, and it meant a lot to me to be able to thank them in person," he wrote on his Facebook page.Facebook
While in the area, he made time to go to his first rodeo in Fort Worth, Texas, with the city's mayor.Facebook
He also held a roundtable discussion with pastors from Waco, Texas. A few weeks earlier, Zuckerberg had told a Facebook user that he is not an atheist, despite having previously described himself as a nonbeliever.Facebook
Zuckerberg continued his tour of the South in Alabama, visiting Mobile and Bayou La Batre. While there, he met with Dominick Ficarino, a shrimp fisherman who starred in a show on the History channel called "Big Shrimpin'."Facebook
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