Zuckerberg buying Hawaii
Mark Zuckerberg – The Billionaire Who Bulldozed Hawaii
Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $200 million buying up land in Hawaii, turning a quiet neighborhood into a non‑stop construction zone with street blockages and debris everywhere. Since 2014, he has quietly expanded his holdings into a 2,300-acre mega-estate known as Koʻolau Ranch. In 2016, he filed lawsuits against hundreds of Native Hawaiians to force them to sell their ancestral land. The land includes burial grounds of Native Hawaiian families. One local cultural practitioner said: “It’s very sad, because the place no longer looks anything like it did when I was a child”. Zuckerberg withdrew the lawsuits after public backlash – but the damage was already done.
Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $200 million buying up land in Hawaii, turning a quiet neighborhood into a non‑stop construction zone with street blockages and debris everywhere. Since 2014, he has quietly expanded his holdings into a 2,300-acre mega-estate known as Koʻolau Ranch. In 2016, he filed lawsuits against hundreds of Native Hawaiians to force them to sell their ancestral land. The land includes burial grounds of Native Hawaiian families. One local cultural practitioner said: “It’s very sad, because the place no longer looks anything like it did when I was a child”. Zuckerberg withdrew the lawsuits after public backlash – but the damage was already done.
