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TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.

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