Mark Zuckerberg, a chapter lawyer from Indiana, has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta.
Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer makes use of a industrial Fb web page to promote his authorized follow and talk with potential shoppers. However his web page has been disabled 5 instances within the final eight years, since Meta’s moderation techniques flag his account as falsely impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, the founding father of the platform.
Mark Zuckerberg just isn’t impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, as a result of he, too, is Mark Zuckerberg. In his authorized criticism, Mark Zuckerberg factors out that he has been practising regulation since Mark Zuckerberg was simply three years previous.
“It’s not funny,” Mark Zuckerberg, the lawyer, stated to Indianapolis’ 13WTHR. “Not when they take my money. This really pissed me off.”
Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $11,000 to promote his web page on Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta platforms, however when Mark Zuckerberg’s account is disabled for allegedly impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg nonetheless has to pay for these commercials.
In his criticism, the lawyer shared a duplicate of an e mail thread from 2020, the place he asks about his wrongly disabled account and references that he has been in contact with the platform about this since 2017.
“Also, if you happen to run into the younger, richer Mark Zuckerberg, tell him I said hi and he causes me great aggravation each day,” Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer wrote in a single e mail.
Techcrunch occasion
San Francisco
|
October 27-29, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg has lengthy been haunted by the looming presence of Mark Zuckerberg. He even created an internet site, iammarkzuckerberg.com, the place he chronicles how his life has been formed by being named Mark Zuckerberg.
“I can’t use my name when making reservations or conducting business as people assume I’m a prank caller and hang up,” he stated. “My life sometimes feels like the Michael Jordan ESPN commercial, where a regular person’s name causes constant mixups.”
Whereas the legal professional might not be a high-profile billionaire, he’s not your common Joe, both (he’s Mark Zuckerberg, in any case). Generally, he finally ends up flying out to Las Vegas for talking engagements, as he’s a revered determine in chapter regulation. However even on his personal turf, he can not escape the opposite Mark Zuckerberg.
“While speaking in Las Vegas, a limo driver was waiting for me at the bottom of the escalator with a sign for ‘Mark Zuckerberg,’ causing chaos as a large disappointed crowd had been waiting,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote.
Regularly, the lawyer says he receives cellphone calls and messages supposed for the tech founder, which typically embrace dying threats and requests for cash. However when this each day nuisance became a possible lack of revenue, Mark Zuckerberg misplaced his persistence with Mark Zuckerberg.
“We know there’s more than one Mark Zuckerberg in the world, and we are getting to the bottom of this,” Meta advised the 13WTHR.
If there’s any little bit of solace for the lawyer, it’s that he’ll at all times present up first whenever you Google “Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy” … at the least for now.
“I don’t wish Mark E. Zuckerberg any ill will at all,” he wrote on his web site. “I hope the best for him, but let me tell you this: I will rule the search for ‘Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy.’ 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 eponymy.”
