#Mark Zuckerberg accused of ‘colonizing’ Hawaiian island

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t a very popular guy on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Mia Brier, a native Hawaiian, has launched a campaign to stop Zuckerberg from “colonizing” Kauai. In only one week, a petition on change.org has garnered nearly 500,000 signatures.

Brier calls Zuckerberg “greedy’ for suing Native Hawaiians who own property close to his massive $100 million estate.

“Mark Zuckerberg is the sixth richest man in the world… and he is suing Native Hawaiians in Kauai for their land so he can build a mansion. They have built lives there. They have built families there. Hawaiians are already mistreated enough as is. We need to let them have this.”

A spokesperson for Zuckerberg told Newsweek that “the premise of this petition is false.”

In 2017, Zuckerberg filed lawsuits against native Hawaiians who owned nearly a dozen tiny parcels to force them to sell their land at auction so he could “enhance” his privacy.

The social media genius dropped the lawsuits but was accused in 2019 of continuing his quest by using a local resident, Carlos Andrade, to scoop up the parcels – and having Andrade sue on his behalf.

“Mark is not suing native Hawaiians and no one has been forced off of the land. At the beginning of 2017, Mark withdrew as a plaintiff from the process to clear title on the land he purchased in Kauai,” Zuckerberg’s spokesperson told Newsweek.

”Beyond the ranch, Mark and (wife) Priscilla have made commitments to Kauai charitable organizations that help to improve the island’s education and health care systems, promote conservation and help to promote efforts to recover from flooding and COVID-19,” the spokesperson said.