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‘GTA V’ lets players kill Zuckerberg stand-in

Grand Theft Auto players once had to content themselves with killing cops and hookers — now they can kill Mark Zuckerberg, too.

The fifth edition of the notorious video game bloodfest — which raked in $800 million in sales since its release Tuesday — features a mission in which gamers hunt down and blow the head off of a character clearly inspired by the Facebook founder.

As “GTA V’s” long storyline progresses, players are tasked with becoming assassins who must take out “Jay Norris” the founder of a fictional social network called “Lifeinvader.”

The scenario is full of jabs at the real Facebook and its nerdy billionaire creator.

Players must first don a disguise — sleeveless vest, cargo shorts and flip flops — to sneak into “Lifeinvader” headquaters, where they walk by parodies of the cheesy motivational posters the real Zuckerberg likes to keep on the walls.

Players are then asked to wait in a beanbag chair, before completing a mini-game and placing a bomb inside a prototype phone that the Norris/Zuckerberg character is about to debut at a tech conference.

The coup de gras comes as the fictional Facebook founder is seen promoting the mobile device on TV, and bragging about how it will complete his dream of information domination.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be the inspiration for Jay Norris, the tech-mogul character who gets killed by a booby-trapped phone in “Grand Theft Auto V.”Grand Theft Auto V

“This company has come a long way since we started it in my parents’ pool-house in East Carroway,” the Norris/Zuckerberg character says. “Today, you’re about to witness a new phase: full on, weapons grade, red alert, world domination!

“We have put a billion peoples’ private data in the public domain and we have milked every penny we could in the process.”

Moments later, players complete their crime by calling the booby-trapped phone, which goes off as Zuckerberg holds it to his head.

In typical, gory, GTA style, the game shows the CEO’s headless body bleeding on the floor.

Facebook did not return a request for comment about whether Zuckerberg has seen his video game doppelganger’s death.