Mark Zuckerberg – not that one – is suing Meta, the proprietor of Fb.
After years of placing up with folks mistaking him for the founding father of Facebook, the Indiana chapter lawyer has had sufficient.
Between 2022 and 2025, Mr Zuckerberg paid over $11,000 (£8,160) to Meta to promote his legislation enterprise, in an try to attract new purchasers to his legislation apply.
His adverts, nevertheless, had been repeatedly eliminated for “impersonating a celeb” or utilizing an inauthentic identify, in keeping with the authorized submitting.
It was the ultimate straw for a person who had been coping with sharing the identify of one of many world’s strongest males for nicely over a decade.
He has documented the struggles of being Mark S Zuckerberg (relatively than Meta’s Mark E Zuckerberg) on his web site, in a listing entitled: “Issues which have occurred to me as a result of my identify is Mark S Zuckerberg (I give it Zero likes)”.
Mark S Zuckerberg is suing Meta, the proprietor of Fb. Pic: Mark S Zuckerberg
Meta chief and Fb founder Mark E Zuckerberg. File pic: AP
Based on the listing, he was mistakenly sued by the State of Washington who thought he was the Meta proprietor.
He stated his Fb account is “continuously hacked”, companies refuse to take his bookings as they suppose it’s a prank and on the household tree web site 23andMe, he has greater than 753 folks claiming to be family members who “instantly request cash”.
Whereas talking at a Las Vegas occasion, he stated “a limo-driver was ready for me on the backside of the escalator with an indication saying ‘Mark Zuckerberg’, inflicting chaos as a big disenchanted crowd had been ready”.
Throughout an electronic mail change he shared between himself and Meta staff after his account was deactivated once more, he stated: “If you happen to occur to run into the youthful, richer Mark Zuckerberg, inform him I say hello and he causes me nice aggravation every day.”
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The Indiana lawyer has spent years in communication with Fb and verified his id utilizing government-issued ID and different paperwork, in keeping with the emails, however his accounts had been nonetheless repeatedly deactivated.
Meta staff would then must reinstate his accounts, in keeping with the emails, and mark the pages as “verified” to cease it from taking place once more.
In a single electronic mail asking for assist, he stated to Meta: “I do not wish to make waves or trigger issues, I simply need my account to be reactivated and [be] left to play on the social media in peace.”
Now, nevertheless, he says he has misplaced hundreds of {dollars} in promoting charges and is suing the corporate.
“It isn’t humorous,” he stated to Indianapolis information channel WTHR. “Not after they take my cash. This actually pissed me off.”
“It is like shopping for a billboard on the aspect of the freeway, paying the folks for the billboard after which they arrive and put a large blanket over it and you aren’t getting the advantage of what you paid for,” he stated.
He’s accusing Meta of making an attempt to forestall him from having “full use, profit and delight” of his personal authorized identify, which he was given earlier than the movie star Mark Zuckerberg was even born.
A Meta spokesperson instructed Sky Information it has reinstated Mark Zuckerberg’s account, “after discovering it had been disabled in error”.
“We admire Mr. Zuckerberg’s continued endurance on this concern and are working to try to stop this from taking place sooner or later.”
The case has been lodged in Indiana’s Marion Superior Courtroom.
