Mack Horton is an Australian Olympic swimmer who unapologetically called Chinese champion Sun Yang a “drug cheat”; Mark Horton is a 36-year-old British IT worker who is unlucky enough to possess a similar name to that of the famous athlete. Yet somehow, the latter has become a victim of social media abuse based on an interview he never even gave.

After Horton beat Sun in the 400-meter freestyle competition on Aug. 6, Horton made his now infamous “drug cheat” comment. The comment was in reference to a three-month ban that Sun served in 2014 after testing positive for the stimulant trimetazidine, which he later claimed he was taking for medical reasons.

Horton’s comment ignited the rage of Chinese netizens, who immediately searched out Horton’s social media accounts to berate him for his bad attitude and demand an apology on Sun's behalf. Within five hours, there were more than 250,000 comments on Horton’s accounts. What remains to be seen, however, is how many more there might have been if so many Chinese netizens hadn’t misspelled Horton’s name.

Twitter user @jessica1207zh wrote to the innocent Brit: “sun is a good athlete! AND he is not a drug cheater! so you should apologize to him.” Another, user, @suzibin_suzi, tweeted at both Mark and Mack Horton: “Drink your urine if your (sic) so proud of it. It was medicine!!!!” At first, Mark Horton was confused. He took to his Twitter to ask whether his critics were confusing him with someone else, and later he asked who Sun Yang was. Eventually he attempted to clear up the confusion, writing: “For the record I’m not the Australian swimmer who said something about a Chinese swimmer #sunyang.”

Eventually, fed up, Mark Horton tweeted directly at Mack Horton himself: “@_mackhorton mate, just apologise! I’m getting abuse for something you said. #SunYang.”

As of yet, the Australian swimmer has not issued an apology for his comment.