{"id":201722,"date":"2025-09-05T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:29:12","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-sues-meta-for-flagging-him-as-impersonating-a-celebrity-this-really-pissed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201722\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta for flagging him as \u2018impersonating a celebrity\u2019: \u2018This really pissed me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian lawyer who shares the same name as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for repeatedly suspending his account, mistaking him for the company\u2019s chief executive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/topic\/mark-zuckerberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, a bankruptcy lawyer, claimed that his verified account has been shut down for more than 15 years, costing him clients and ad funds. He says Meta wrongly flags him for \u201cimpersonating a celebrity,\u201d despite using his real identity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not funny,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not when they take my money. This really pissed me off,\u201d Zuckerberg told Indianapolis-based 13WTHR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And using a false name! Which I&#8217;ve had way longer than he has,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got better things to do than sue Facebook. They have more money and more lawyers and more resources than I do. I&#8217;d rather not pick a fight with them, but I don&#8217;t know how else to make them stop!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also read | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/us-news\/trump-teases-zuckerberg-about-his-political-career-gets-instant-rebuttal-with-no-watch-11757031324186.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump teases Zuckerberg about his \u2018political career,\u2019 gets instant rebuttal with \u2018no&#8217;: Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May, he said, his firm\u2019s business page was removed, causing him to lose $11,000 in advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Why did he decide to sue now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/topic\/zuckerberg-mark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zuckerberg<\/a> didn\u2019t immediately take Meta to court. Over the years, he repeatedly contacted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/topic\/facebook-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook <\/a>whenever his accounts were suspended. The company even apologised over email, but the suspensions continued, eventually pushing him to act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did everything they asked me to do, like I always do. They ask you to appeal if you think your suspension is not proper. I filed the proper appeals with them the very next day and I&#8217;ve heard nothing from them and it&#8217;s been four months. The last time they did it, it was over six months before they turned my account back on. So I don&#8217;t know how else to get their attention,&#8221; Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For somebody who purports to be one of the leading tech companies in the world, and they can&#8217;t stop doing this? And they can&#8217;t seem to get their appeal process to work? I think they have a problem,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>What is he suing for?<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg alleged that the repeated bans have cost him client communication and thousands of dollars he invested in ads for his law practice.<\/p>\n<p>In his lawsuit, he is demanding that Meta permanently restore his account. He is also seeking reimbursement for lost ad funds, attorney fees, and maintains that he has a strong chance of winning the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian lawyer who shares the same name as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,111490,111487,111486,111489,111488,111491,18750,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-201722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-how-old-is-mark-zuckerberg","11":"tag-how-tall-is-mark-zuckerberg","12":"tag-mark-zuckerberg-lawsuit","13":"tag-mark-zuckerberg-movie","14":"tag-mark-zuckerberg-on-his-knees","15":"tag-mark-zuckerberg-wife","16":"tag-sundar-pichai","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115150517981875659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}