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 regulation enterprise, in an try to attract new shoppers to his regulation observe.
His adverts, nevertheless, had been repeatedly eliminated for “impersonating a star” 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 effectively 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 an inventory 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
In line with the record, he was mistakenly sued by the State of Washington who thought he was the Meta proprietor.
He mentioned his Fb account is “always hacked”, companies refuse to take his bookings as they assume it’s a prank and on the household tree web site 23andMe, he has greater than 753 folks claiming to be kin who “instantly request cash”.
Whereas talking at a Las Vegas occasion, he mentioned “a limo-driver was ready for me on the backside of the escalator with an indication saying ‘Mark Zuckerberg’, inflicting chaos as a big disillusioned crowd had been ready”.
Throughout an e-mail alternate he shared between himself and Meta staff after his account was deactivated once more, he mentioned: “When you 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 identification 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 occurring once more.
In a single e-mail asking for assist, he mentioned 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 is not humorous,” he mentioned 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 an enormous blanket over it and you aren’t getting the advantage of what you paid for,” he mentioned.
He’s accusing Meta of trying to stop him from having “full use, profit and delight” of his personal authorized identify, which he was given earlier than the superstar Mark Zuckerberg was even born.
A Meta spokesperson advised Sky Information it has reinstated Mark Zuckerberg’s account, “after discovering it had been disabled in error”.
“We respect Mr. Zuckerberg’s continued endurance on this situation and are working to attempt to forestall this from occurring sooner or later.”
The case has been lodged in Indiana’s Marion Superior Court docket.
