When Facebook failed to respond to his request to shut down a fake account in his name, MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) decided to deal with it on his own — and invited Mark Zuckerberg, the popular social network’s founder and CEO, to a special Knesset hearing on the matter.
According to the ultra-Orthodox website Lada’at (Hebrew for “to know”), after discovering the fake account, the legislator decided to use his prerogative as the Knesset’s Science and Technology Committee head and called a special session on the matter of forged online accounts.
In the letter sent to Zuckerberg, Gafni invited him “to partake in a thorough debate which will deal with protecting the citizens’ rights in the age of the Facebook social network.”
“I’m not worried only for myself, but wonder how a common citizen can defend himself from such acts,” Gafni wrote.
A committee head has no authority to summon anyone against their will — and most definitely not a foreign national. Zuckerberg would be welcomed as “a guest of honor,” the MK concluded his letter.
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As of Sunday night, the fake account had garnered over 300 “likes,” while some people warned the person behind it that posing as someone else was a criminal offense.
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