Mark Zuckerberg vs Mark Zuckerberg: Indiana lawyer sues Meta over repeated bans

Mark S. Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana, has filed a lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg led social media platform Facebook after the company repeatedly claimed he was not using his “authentic name.”

A Indiana based bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg says he has been improperly banned by Facebook for impersonation. (Image Credit: Reuters/Mark S Zuckerberg)

Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana, United States, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, the Meta-owned social media platform led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark S Zuckerberg, the lawyer, says that the social media platform has suspended his Facebook page several times and accused him of “impersonating a celebrity.” In the last eight years, the lawyer says Facebook has disabled his account at least five times. In the lawsuit, Mark S Zuckerberg, the Indiana bankruptcy attorney, claims that the social media platform’s unjust ban has cost him thousands of dollars in lost business.

In a statement to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana, Zuckerberg, the lawyer, said, “It’s not funny. Not when they take my money. 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.”

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According to the lawsuit filed in the Marion Superior Court, Mark S Zuckerberg, the lawyer says he paid Meta $11,000 for advertising and that the tech giant has breached the contract by falsely taking down his posts. The lawyer even shows the local media his emails with Facebook, where the Mark Zuckerberg-led company had accused him of not using his “authentic name” even after he shared his photo ID, credit card and images of himself to prove his identity.

Meta had disabled Mark S Zuckerberg’s account earlier this year in May, but after the lawsuit, restored access. As it turns out, the lawyer has even launched a website called “iammarkzuckerg.com” to track the mix-ups, where he mentioned that he was once falsely sued by the state of Washington for abuse.

On the website, the lawyer Mark S Zuckerberg says he routinely receives death threats and is often harassed on the Messenger app, gets phone calls at his office every day from people demanding tech support, and says he can’t use his last name when making reservations or conducting business as people think it’s a prank call.

According to a report by BBC, Meta said in a statement that they had “reinstated Mark Zuckerberg’s account, after finding it had been disabled in error. We appreciate Mr Zuckerberg’s continued patience on this issue and are working to try and prevent this from happening in the future.”