Salman Rushdie Wins Name Battle Against Facebook
Noted author Salman Rushdie won a brief yet hard fought social media battle against Facebook yesterday after the site changed the prize-winning writer's name.
What’s in a name? A lot if you ask Facebook.
Noted author Salman Rushdie won a brief yet hard fought social media battle against Facebook yesterday after the site changed the prize-winning writer’s name.
His weapon of choice? Twitter.
Salman is actually Rushdie’s middle name. His real name is Ahmed, which he never uses and appears only on his passport.
Yesterday morning, Rushdie took to Twitter and announced that Facebook had deactivated his account two days earlier.
The social network asked for proof of identity and changed his account to Ahmed Rushdie, which is how the U.K.
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