Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/04/2251235/mark-zuckerberg-sues-mark-zuckerberg
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/mark-zuckerberg-sues-mark-zuckerberg/
> Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his legal practice and communicate with potential clients. But his page has been disabled five times in the last eight years, since Meta's moderation systems flag his account as falsely impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the platform. Mark Zuckerberg is not impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, because he, too, is Mark Zuckerberg. In his legal complaint, Mark Zuckerberg points out that he has been practicing law since Mark Zuckerberg was just three years old.
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> "It's not funny," Mark Zuckerberg, the lawyer, [2]said to Indianapolis' 13WTHR. "Not when they take my money. This really pissed me off." Mark Zuckerberg has spent over $11,000 to advertise his page on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platforms, but when Mark Zuckerberg's account is disabled for allegedly impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg still has to pay for these advertisements.
Zuckerberg created a website, [3]iammarkzuckerberg.com , chronicling how his life has been shaped by being named Mark Zuckerberg.
The lawsuit can be found [4]here .
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/mark-zuckerberg-sues-mark-zuckerberg/
[2] https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-attorney-mark-zuckerberg-suing-meta-repeated-facebook-suspensions/531-90a65dfb-618d-4399-89c3-e80d0fed6df4
[3] https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/
[4] https://www.scribd.com/document/911510640/Mark-S-Zuckerberg-vs-Meta-Platforms#fullscreen&from_embed
Another Famous Case (Score:2)
Anyone who has watched Office Space knows the pain and suffering that can be brought by sharing the name with someone famous.
Just ask Michael Bolton.
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My neighbor's name is George Bush.
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My neighbor has a putrid, festering bucket of shit called Donald Trump.
I can lie too.
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I shall be painting this name on my compost bin (the closest thing I have to a putrid festering pile of shit) forthwith.
No I won't. The compost bin has a useful productive future ahead of it.
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My best friend from high school is a guy named Morgan Freeman, and he is as white as an albino.
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"Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks."
- Mark Zuckerberg of Indiana; probably.
What's in a name? (Score:2)
Quite a lot evidently when one's a billionaire and the other is a lawyer. It should be an interesting fight, you'd think they could easily settle this. Certainly the one can afford to just pay off the other. Shows us exactly how incompetent and petty the ultra rich can really be. Just saying.
Re: What's in a name? (Score:2)
The lawyer will get a gift basket with noise canceling headphones. That should take care of the issue.
[1]https://fortune.com/2025/08/26... [fortune.com] /sarcasm
Tbh, a legal fight between a billionaire and a lawyer might be entertaining.
[1] https://fortune.com/2025/08/26/mark-zuckerberg-palo-alto-neighbors-construction-noise-canceling-headphones/
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It's not over yet, that's for sure. Maybe they could arm wrestle for the naming rights?
Re: What's in a name? (Score:2)
you'd think they could easily settle
Another cage fight challenge for the zuck?
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coming soon to a pay per view channel near you ;~)
You don't have a right to a Facebook page (Score:2)
FB Zuck owns it. It's his property, it's his call.
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Alas, I have to agree with this. However, per TFS, lawyer Zuckerberg appears to be upset about Meta charging him for advertising a page that he cannot use. Surely he has a legitimate beef regarding that.
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> FB Zuck owns it. It's his property, it's his call.
I can see a few issues here still. There must be terms of service that lay out some rules here, and it appears Facebook isn't playing by their own rules. Lawyer Zuckerberg apparently paid money to Facebook and wasn't refunded, that makes this more than an annoyance for a "mixup" on the account. There's certainly more going on. Accusations of fraud against a lawyer, someone that lives and dies based on reputation, could cause problems.
I see a case that can't be dismissed so easily with "it's my house" he
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Well, he owns *some* of it. About 13.5%, it turns out. Even he would have to abide by the Facebook TOS, as they were written. He's not king, even in his own empire.
Mark Zuckerberg should have sued earlier... (Score:2)
Considering how much longer Mr Zuckerberg has been in the professional world, being associated with an asshole like Mark Zuckerberg of Meta has probably hurt his reputation.
I'm Matt Damon (SNL) (Score:2)
[1]https://youtu.be/R1vlJ-6VZNk?s... [youtu.be]
[1] https://youtu.be/R1vlJ-6VZNk?si=H5QIO8JdSOMmuWAM
So Facebook actually acts on these every so often? (Score:4, Interesting)
I must have submitted a hundred complaints about obvious fake accounts, where people have literally cloned the names and images of my Facebook friends, and Facebook does nothing. But when a real person happens to have the same name as Facebook's CEO for real, and can provide evidence, they shut that account down repeatedly?
It almost seems like some Facebook coder left out a "not" somewhere, i.e. the complaints that they act on, they shouldn't, and the complaints they don't act on, they should. Just saying.
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IANAL, but if I were, I'd change my name to Zark Fuckerberg.
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Complaints go in the auto-delete bin by default. Regulations, or unenforced regs, don't compel action, so you get none.
This case will be a directive from on high. It shows the level of arrogance The Suck has. Shows his true colours.