Face of Facebook returns

CAMBRIDGE, MA - MAY 25: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at the Alumni Exercises at Harvard's 366th commencement exercises on May 25, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zuckerberg studied computer science at Harvard before leaving to move Facebook to Paolo Alto, CA. He returned to the campus this week to his former dorm room and live streamed his visit. Paul Marotta/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Mark Zuckerberg has always played the long game. And if he ever ascends to the highest office in the land, at least we'll know that he'll be thinking beyond an election. 

It's telling that Zuckerberg's favourite videogame is Civilization, an enormously complicated strategy contest whose players aspire to build an empire that will stand the test of time.