Indianapolis Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg Sues Meta Over Account Suspensions

An Indianapolis bankruptcy lawyer who shares the same name as Meta's founder sued the social media company this week, saying the platform repeatedly disabled his personal and business Facebook pages on the grounds that he was impersonating the tech billionaire. The lawsuit filed in Marion Superior Court alleges negligence and breach of contract after the attorney lost advertising money and endured lengthy appeals to restore accounts he says were wrongly removed.

Mark S. Zuckerberg says Meta disabled his accounts multiple times over the past eight to 15 years, sometimes requiring months to reinstate them while keeping payments for promoted posts. In the complaint he filed this week, he says his pages were disabled nine times in eight years, including five suspensions of his commercial account and four of his personal account. Public accounts of the incidents have varied; some interviews he gave cite slightly different tallies. The attorney says he lost about $11,000 in ad spending when a firm page was taken down in May and alleges the platform continued to accept ad payments even after suspending the page.

According to the lawsuit, each disabling was accompanied by the same...