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The Asian Age, an English-language newspaper in Bangladesh, cited the same message from the @MarkCrtlC account in its report on the blackout published the next day.
The post came as Meta’s social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads went down on March 5 and users no longer had to access their accounts.
A screenshot of the tweet was also shared on Facebook here, here and here in Bengali and here and here in English. The tweet was posted via an account called “Mark Zuckerberg (parody). “
A search of the @MarkCrtlC account on X led to an account describing itself as a parody and the user as a “comedian” (archived link).
AFP discovered the publication about the March 5 blackout (link archived).
AFP reported that Zuckerberg has an X account under the pseudonym “finkd,” but is a normal user (link archived).
Below is a comparison screenshot between the account reported through Zuckerberg (left) and the parody account (right):
Zuckerberg hasn’t posted anything about the outage on his account as of March 19.
His last article was published in July 2023, months before the blackout (archived link).