Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta - but he's not who you think

Mark Zuckerberg - not that 1 - is suing Meta, the proprietor of Facebook.

After years of putting up with radical mistaking him for the laminitis of Facebook, the Indiana bankruptcy lawyer has had enough.

Between 2022 and 2025, Mr Zuckerberg paid implicit $11,000 (£8,160) to Meta to advertise his instrumentality business, successful an effort to gully caller clients to his instrumentality practice.

His adverts, however, were repeatedly removed for "impersonating a celebrity" oregon utilizing an inauthentic name, according to the ineligible filing.

It was the last straw for a antheral who had been dealing with sharing the sanction of 1 of the world's astir almighty men for good implicit a decade.

He has documented the struggles of being Mark S Zuckerberg (rather than Meta's Mark E Zuckerberg) connected his website, successful a database entitled: "Things that person happened to maine due to the fact that my sanction is Mark S Zuckerberg (I springiness it Zero likes)".

According to the list, helium was mistakenly sued by the State of Washington who thought helium was the Meta owner.

He said his Facebook relationship is "constantly hacked", businesses garbage to instrumentality his bookings arsenic they deliberation it is simply a prank and connected the household histrion website 23andMe, helium has much than 753 radical claiming to beryllium relatives who "immediately petition money".

While speaking astatine a Las Vegas event, helium said "a limo-driver was waiting for maine astatine the bottommost of the escalator with a motion saying 'Mark Zuckerberg', causing chaos arsenic a ample disappointed assemblage had been waiting".

During an email speech helium shared betwixt himself and Meta employees aft his relationship was deactivated again, helium said: "If you hap to tally into the younger, richer Mark Zuckerberg, archer him I accidental hullo and helium causes maine large aggravation each day."

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The Indiana lawyer has spent years successful connection with Facebook and verified his individuality utilizing government-issued ID and different documents, according to the emails, but his accounts were inactive repeatedly deactivated.

Meta employees would past person to reinstate his accounts, according to the emails, and people the pages arsenic "verified" to halt it from happening again.

In 1 email asking for help, helium said to Meta: "I don't privation to marque waves oregon origin problems, I conscionable privation my relationship to beryllium reactivated and [be] near to play connected the societal media successful peace."

Now, however, helium says helium has mislaid thousands of dollars successful advertizing fees and is suing the company.

"It's not funny," helium said to Indianapolis quality transmission WTHR. "Not erstwhile they instrumentality my money. This truly pissed maine off."

"It's similar buying a billboard connected the broadside of the highway, paying the radical for the billboard and past they travel and enactment a elephantine broad implicit it and you don't get the payment of what you paid for," helium said.

He is accusing Meta of attempting to forestall him from having "full use, payment and enjoyment" of his ain ineligible name, which helium was fixed earlier the personage Mark Zuckerberg was adjacent born.

The lawsuit has been lodged successful Indiana's Marion Superior Court.

Sky News has contacted Meta for comment.