His announcement that he was donating 99 percent of his Facebook shares to charitable causes in celebration of his newborn daughter hasn't earned Mark Zuckerberg as much public approval as he may have hoped.

The CEO, creator and majority owner of Facebook made the announcement along with his wife, Priscilla Chan, that in honor of their daughter, that they were going to give the majority of their shares, valued at about $45 billion, in order to advance the mission of their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help "advance human potential" and "promote equality for all children" in the next generation.

However, the move has been criticized by some on social media, and in the press, because the Initiative has been made into an LLC, not a charity specifically.

He is also being criticized over the fact that he gets tax breaks.

And of course, jokes were made about the fact that he wants to do something charitable:

However, others have taken to social media to applaud the move, and express that they didn't think it was right that he was being criticized so heavily.

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