An unusual case has emerged in Indiana, where a bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Meta, the company led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The attorney says his professional Facebook page has been disabled multiple times over the last eight years because Meta’s system wrongly believes he is impersonating the tech billionaire.
He insists that he is not pretending to be anyone else and points out that he has been practicing law since long before the Meta founder became famous.
The repeated suspensions have come at a cost. The lawyer says he has spent more than $11,000 on advertising through Meta’s platforms, but even when his account was blocked, the company continued charging him for ads. He has complained about the issue since 2017, yet the problem persists.
Living with such a well-known name has also created other difficulties for him. He regularly deals with prank calls, mistaken reservations, and even threatening messages from people confusing him with the Meta CEO.
Once, while speaking at a conference in Las Vegas, a limo driver holding a sign for “Mark Zuckerberg” sparked chaos among a disappointed crowd expecting the billionaire.
Meta has responded by saying it is reviewing the situation and acknowledges that there is more than one Mark Zuckerberg in the world. Despite the challenges, the Indiana lawyer is using humor to cope.
On his website, he says he wishes no harm to the Meta founder but jokes that when people search for “Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy,” he intends to remain at the top of the results.
