An Indiana attorney who shares same name as Meta CEO, Mark Steven Zuckerberg has charged the tech giant in court.
Gatekeepers News reports that the lawyer alleged that the tech giant has repeatedly sabotaged his business by mistaking him for an impersonator of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
The bankruptcy lawyer alleges he spent more than $11,000 between 2022 and 2025 advertising his practice on Facebook, only to see many of those ads pulled down.
According to him, the platform frequently flagged his campaigns for impersonating a celebrity or using an inauthentic name.
On his personal website titled, ‘Things that have happened to me because my name is Mark S Zuckerberg (I give it Zero likes)’, the attorney details years of frustration.
He wrote, “ My personal Facebook account has been disabled five times and my business account four times because Facebook believes I am impersonating a celebrity or using a fake name.”
Zuckerberg recalled being accidentally sued by the state of Washington and even being mobbed at a Las Vegas event when a limo driver displayed his name, leading onlookers to think the Meta CEO was present.
Court records show that Zuckerberg repeatedly submitted government-issued identification to prove his identity.
In one email to the company, he pleaded, “I don’t want to make waves or cause problems, I just want my account to be reactivated and [be] left to play on the social media in peace.”
Frustrated by lost revenue, the lawyer decided legal action was the only way forward. “It’s like paying for a billboard on the highway and then they cover it with a blanket,” he told Indianapolis station WTHR. “This really pissed me off.”
Although Meta later restored his account and admitted it had been mistakenly disabled, Zuckerberg argues the damage was already done. The case is now before Indiana’s Marion Superior Court.
