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 Fb, 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 shoppers to his legislation follow.
His adverts, nonetheless, had been repeatedly eliminated for “impersonating a celebrity” or utilizing an inauthentic title, based on the authorized submitting.
It was the ultimate straw for a person who had been coping with sharing the title of one of many world’s strongest males for properly over a decade.
He has documented the struggles of being Mark S Zuckerberg (reasonably than Meta’s Mark E Zuckerberg) on his web site, in a listing entitled: “Things that have happened to me because my name is Mark S Zuckerberg (I give it Zero likes)”.
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Mark S Zuckerberg is suing Meta, the proprietor of Fb. Pic: Mark S Zuckerberg
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Meta chief and Fb founder Mark E Zuckerberg. File pic: AP
Based on the checklist, he was mistakenly sued by the State of Washington who thought he was the Meta proprietor.
He stated his Fb account is “constantly 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 family members who “immediately request money”.
Whereas talking at a Las Vegas occasion, he stated “a limo-driver was waiting for me at the bottom of the escalator with a sign saying ‘Mark Zuckerberg’, causing chaos as a large disappointed crowd had been waiting”.
Now, nonetheless, he says he has misplaced hundreds of {dollars} in promoting charges and is suing the corporate.
“It’s like buying a billboard on the side of the highway, paying the people for the billboard and then they come and put a giant blanket over it and you don’t get the benefit of what you paid for,” he stated.
He’s accusing Meta of trying to forestall him from having “full use, benefit and enjoyment” of his personal authorized title, which he was given earlier than the celeb Mark Zuckerberg was even born.
The case has been lodged in Indiana’s Marion Superior Courtroom.
