There’s more than one Mark Zuckerberg, and now, one of them is suing Meta.
Mark S. Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy attorney from Indiana, has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, after his law firm’s Facebook page was repeatedly disabled. Meta’s moderation systems flagged his account as “impersonating” the billionaire, even though that is his real name.
According to the complaint, the lawyer’s page has been disabled five times in eight years. Each time, he lost access to clients and advertising he had paid for. In total, he has spent more than $11,000 on ads with Meta platforms, but was still charged during periods when his account was disabled.
“It’s not funny,” the attorney told local station 13WTHR. “Not when they take my money. This really pissed me off.”
Mark S. Zuckerberg points out that he has been practicing law since the Meta founder was just three years old. He even runs a website, iammarkzuckerberg.com, where he documents how sharing a name with one of the world’s most famous CEOs has complicated his life, from mistaken calls and prank assumptions to awkward travel mix-ups.
The mix-ups are sometimes absurd. At a Las Vegas speaking engagement, a limo driver held up a sign for “Mark Zuckerberg,” sparking chaos among disappointed onlookers expecting the tech mogul. He also regularly receives death threats and financial requests intended for the Meta CEO.
Meta, for its part, acknowledged the problem in a statement: “We know there’s more than one Mark Zuckerberg in the world, and we are getting to the bottom of this.”
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Despite the frustration, the attorney insists he bears no ill will toward his billionaire namesake. “I will rule the search for ‘Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy,’” he wrote on his website. “And if he does fall upon difficult financial times, and happens to be in Indiana, I will gladly handle his case in honor of our shared name.”
