ALBAWABA - Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg's t-shirt has caused controversy among Tunisians over a sentence written on it in Spanish.
The American businessman has been under a wave of controversy after he appeared on his birthday with a t-shirt that was found inappropriate by people in Tunisia.
Mark Zuckerberg posted the pictures on Facebook and wrote: "Grateful for my first 40 years! Priscilla threw me a little party and recreated a bunch of places I lived in the early days."
He added that Priscilla's places included his childhood bedroom, his Harvard dorm where I launched Facebook, as well as the American billionaire's first apartment with just a mattress on the floor where I stayed until we reached 100 million people, in addition to an office lockdown where they worked day and night to fight off competitors, and Pinocchio's Pizzeria where he basically lived in college.
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg. (Facebook)
However, after posting the images, the Meta CEO has landed in hot water as the slogan on his t-shirt calls for destroying Carthage city, Tunisia.
The black t-shirt in the pictures has the sentence in Latin "Est Delenda Carthago" which means 'Carthage must be destroyed' and calls for a wide war.
Tunisians reshared the images with angry reactions where some called for a campaign to shut down Meta accounts.
A person wrote: "Not in my wildest dreams would I have predicted Mark Zuckerberg would one day show up in a photo shoot in great shape with a gold chain and a shirt that says, “Carthage must be destroyed” in Latin."
Why did Mark Zuckerberg wear that Latin-written t-shirt?
Social media users questioned the reason behind Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg's choice of this t-shirt which had the sentence in Latin "Est Delenda Carthago" which means 'Carthage must be destroyed'.
According to a Business Insider source, Zuckerberg studied Latin at school, which could be the reason behind wearing this t-shirt. Not only that but also the American businessman possibly attributed the t-shirt to a Roman senator called Cato the Elder, who used to hate "Carthage".
However, no information about the reason behind the Latin-written t-shirt was clarified by Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg. (Facebook)
