The irony of this comment goes through the roof

I was actually hoping it was this. My top level response would have been the same though.

Without a doubt.

It just seemed clear grammatically that this was two separate people.

If it was some oligarch shenanigans instead of "the" it would have been "as a"

That's the first thing that came to mind.

Some sort of scheme.

Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.

To me, that is about as crazy as suing someone for his name.