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Boosie Says He’s Officially Suing Mark Zuckerberg For $20 Million Over His Instagram Being Shut Down—“It’s Discrimination!”

<p data-pm-slice&equals;"1 1 &lbrack;&rsqb;">Roommates&comma; after he publicly pleaded with Mark Zuckerberg and even offered him &dollar;100&comma;000—<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;boosie-webbie-seemingly-squash-beef-link-up-amid-boosies-recovery&sol;">Boosie<&sol;a> revealed in a new interview that now he plans to sue Zuckerberg for &dollar;20 million for shutting his Instagram down&period; For the last few months&comma; Boosie has been in a tug-of-war with Zuckerberg in the hopes of regaining his Instagram&comma; but it appears that now he wants to go the legal route&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During a <a class&equals;"ProsemirrorEditor-link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;complex&period;com&sol;music&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;boosie-badazz-instagram-ban-mark-zuckerberg-20-million-dollar-lawsuit">recent interview<&sol;a>&comma; Boosie boldly proclaimed that he has decided to officially sue Mark Zuckerberg&comma; in his latest attempt to lift his current Instagram ban&period; He claims that by deactivating his Instagram account&comma; he has taken a major financial hit to his various business ventures&comma; as IG is a hefty source of income for him&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Zuckerberg&rsqb; made some of my business ventures go down&comma; so I&&num;8217&semi;m suing him now&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m filing a lawsuit against him now&&num;8230&semi; he stopped me off Instagram and he didn&&num;8217&semi;t put me back on Instagram&period; And that&&num;8217&semi;s affecting my business&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Boosie also alleges that his Instagram was banned because he was targeted due to his race&comma; taking time to point out that there were many others with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;worse” violations that didn’t result in them being permanently deactivated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is the first time my Instagram has ever been &lbrack;taken&rsqb; from me&comma;” he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;So you can give other 2 million people their Instagram back for derogatory things they did&quest; &&num;8230&semi; This is discrimination&period; Something is wrong&period; Somebody must be mad &&num;8217&semi;cause I said their name wrong and they&&num;8217&semi;re trying to chastise me&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He continued&comma; adding&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And my Black people are starting to tell me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Boosie&comma; this man is a racist&period; He knows you affect the Black community and make them smile every morning&quest; Why is he not giving you your page back&quest; &&num;8230&semi; He might be trying to stop us from smiling&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8230&semi; You&&num;8217&semi;re going too far&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You’ll recall that&comma; Instagram&comma; which was purchased by Facebook back in 2014&comma; deactivated Boosie&&num;8217&semi;s account due to sexually explicit content featured on his Instagram Live broadcasts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-71007" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;Boosie&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"740" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CIY3EDQJxkD" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; 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