Facebook finds itself in strange faceoff with Faceparty founder

Bamforth, the co-founder of Faceparty, a British site that enjoyed a brief heyday in the early 2000s, claims he was mentally incapacitated for 12 years, including in 2008 when he signed a trademark rights agreement that Zuckerberg’s company relied on to build the world’s biggest social network. — AFP

A social media pioneer tried to convince a US judge there’s a big mistake in how Facebook Inc came to acquire the rights to the word “face” more than a decade ago.

Andrew David Bamforth, the co-founder of Faceparty, a British site that enjoyed a brief heyday in the early 2000s, claims he was mentally incapacitated for 12 years, including in 2008 when he signed a trademark rights agreement that Mark Zuckerberg’s company relied on to build the world’s biggest social network.