AsianFin -- An Indiana bankruptcy attorney named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, after repeated clashes with the social media company’s moderation systems.
The lawyer, who has practiced law for decades, uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his legal services and communicate with clients. But according to his complaint, Meta has disabled his page five times over the past eight years, each time wrongly flagging him as impersonating the company’s high-profile founder.
“Mark Zuckerberg is not impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, because he, too, is Mark Zuckerberg,” the filing states.
The Indiana attorney notes in the suit that he has been practicing law since 1983 — back when Meta’s Zuckerberg was just three years old.
The unusual case highlights the complications that can arise when content moderation systems, designed to police fake accounts, mistakenly ensnare users with legitimate claims to the same name as prominent public figures.
Meta has not commented publicly on the lawsuit.
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