{"id":1028094,"date":"2026-08-11T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028094"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:02:25","slug":"after-mark-zuckerbergs-300-million-387-foot-yacht-launchpad-booed-for-not-responding-to-distress-call-by-stranded-small-cruise-ship-clarification-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/after-mark-zuckerbergs-300-million-387-foot-yacht-launchpad-booed-for-not-responding-to-distress-call-by-stranded-small-cruise-ship-clarification-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s $300 million, 387-foot yacht Launchpad booed for not responding to distress call by stranded small cruise ship, clarification issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $390 million, 387-foot yacht Launchpad was recently booed over a reported failure to respond to a stranded boat. A Meta spokesperson has now clarified that the vessel&#8217;s crew was on a different radio channel and that help was already on the way. The incident happened last Monday, August 3 evening in Alaska after a 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel between Juneau and Petersburg. While social media users criticised Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s superyacht, the company said neither Zuckerberg nor his family were on board at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Yacht booed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $390 million, 387-foot yacht Launchpad was recently booed over a reported failure to respond to a stranded boat. A Meta spokesperson has now clarified that the vessel&#8217;s crew was on a different radio channel and that help was already on the way. The incident happened last Monday, August 3 evening in Alaska after a 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel between Juneau and Petersburg. While social media users criticised Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s superyacht, the company said neither Zuckerberg nor his family were on board at the time. Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Yacht booed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028095,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028094\/revisions\/1028095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}