Mark Zuckerberg's daughter barred from putting her AI-coded apps online by her own mother

From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. Chan has revealed their daughter Maxima, 11, builds AI apps at home but blocked her plan to create a dating site.

Mark Zuckerberg and his children. Chan told a Colossus profile that Maxima spent 2024 writing a 40-page AI-assisted novel about "mermaid crystals.

Priscilla Chan has revealed she blocks her daughter from publishing the apps she builds using AI coding tools to the open internet, despite Meta selling a public app-sharing platform based on exactly that concept. Chan showed a journalist her daughter's Replit account, which contains a messaging app, a FarmVille-style game, and a GeoCities-like website — none accessible publicly. The daughter also prepared full marketing and sales plans for each creation, and the family blocked her from building a dating site entirely.

Chan's rule sits in direct contradiction with Meta's own Pocket app, which lets users share AI-built creations on a public feed.

Meta faces ongoing child safety lawsuits in the US and imminent EU age-verification rules — making the family's private caution all the more pointed.

The daughter also produced a podcast, an audiobook she narrated herself, and AI-generated motivational theme songs — all kept firmly offline.

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