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Michelle Couch-Friedman

Good advice, Danielle! 🙂

Jan

What if you didn’t do what they say you did to get banned? And I mean in absolutely no way, shape, or form did you violate ANY Community Standards period. Yet FB said you did, and you can’t get a real human to review the problem? We appealed. They denied the appeal. Now they have sent a ban on our business page. They said it was for “child sexual exploitation”. The last thing we posted on our business page was a help wanted ad for people to put up Christmas lights (that’s what we do in our business). On the personal page they did the same thing and gave the same reason. The last thing posted on there was hiking photos from the Smokey Mtns. We are pulling our hair out here trying to get this resolved!!!

Michelle Couch-Friedman

Unfortunately, it does appear from the hundreds and hundreds of requests for help we receive from former Facebook users, that some of these people have been banned in error. Most of the appeals seems to be “reviewed” by AI bots. Our team would be happy to review the details of your case if you would like (this is a free service). You can submit your case here: https://consumerrescue.org/gethelp/.

Arron

This happened to me after my account was hacked. I don’t post memes and I certainly didn’t do anything to get myself banned. I have no idea what the hackers did with my account but I do know that I’ve been permanently banned for someone else’s actions. 🙁

Pies Boards & Books Food By Na

Meeeee too , and I run two business smh it’s a shame but if I can’t depend on Facebook and IG , I’ll see what TikTok and YouTube are doing because this is crazy!

Mikael Guggenheim

Same, but not even my fb account but my insta.

Simone Ramella

It just happened to me too, less than 24 hours after receiving a mail from Facebook in which I was notified of the suspension of my account for an unspecified violation of community standards. I later found out that my Instagram account was also suspended, although I did not receive any formal warning whatsoever. I believe my account was hacked. On October 28th I had received another email from Facebook telling me that someone may have logged into my account and that I would have to answer a few questions and change my password at the next login. So I did and also checked my Facebook wall to see if there were any new posts that I didn’t recognize but found nothing suspicious. For security reasons, all my accounts are protected by Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), but in the last few months I’ve realized (on Amazon and Twitter) that even that doesn’t guarantee total protection from breaches.

When my account was awaiting the final review, I tried to at least retrieve my information, but when I pressed the button to download the file created by Facebook I got instead a rather alarming message: “Your account is subject to more restrictions. No one else can see your post. We do not allow publication and the dissemination of content that eroticizes minors”. I never did that, obviously. In fact the last content I personally published on Facebook dates back to a month ago and was about the risk of closure of the Italian news agency “Redattore sociale”. Since then on Facebook I have only put a few likes and posted some short comments, especially about soccer content. Nothing that can justify the suspension or, worse, the closure of my account. On Instagram the last photo posted was taken in Amsterdam and dates back to the first days of September. It showed a house overlooking one of the many canals of the Dutch capital. No minors to be seen anywhere as in all my other pics.

In the 15+ years of my presence on Facebook, as well as on Instagram, I have never ever posted content that is offensive, discriminatory, racist, pornographic and, much less, that eroticizes minors. Being a journalist, I am perfectly aware of the rules that must be followed in communication, both online and offline. However Facebook indicted, prosecuted and convicted me in less than 24 hours for a crime I don’t even know about and all the defense I was allowed to was uploading my passport to prove my identity. I think it is fair to say that the whole process is flawed and that we should worry a lot more about these big unregulated corporations controlling most of the media.

LiLi

While I understand this ban (though I don’t think it should have been permanent) Facebook does take things wildly out of context and it seems to only be getting worse, and “appeals” go back to the same AI that tagged the community violation.

For example, I got tagged and put in 24 hr FB jail for “Violence and threats” when I responded to a very good friend who announced they were movie out of town that I was going to “Kidnap you for drinks before you go.” I have a friend who was put in FB jail for posting a very normal picture of her dog which just said it “went against community standards” A pic got removed from a group I Admin as “nudity” and the member put in FB jail, and the only notable bare skin was a man’s bald head (maybe the AI thought it was a breast?)

I know it is a daunting task to actually review “disagreements” so no one ever thinks they are in the wrong, but not being able to have a quick human interaction is deeply frustrating. We aren’t FB customers, but in the end we are its product and punishing users who have been tagged incorrectly by the AI still damages it as an entity.

Mikael Guggenheim

Yeah. I’m kinda pissed at Facebook as well.. Got permbanned without warning a couple of weeks ago. Still don’t know why. All I got on the facebook page was “You’re permbanned for violating community rules by posts on instagram that’s linked to facebook”.

I don’t even use my Instagram and haven’t posted on it for over a year. And those posts was regular “family dinner blah blah”, nice weather and so on. Really boring actually.

So my only idea on what could be the reason is that my account got hacked or something. But I don’t know and I get no information about it at all. I must admit I don’t really care much, feels kinda liberating without facebook. I realise how much time it consumes for pure crap you scroll through now that I can compare it to being without it, and I would actually give everyone else the advice to remove their account as well. It’s not worth it.

I do miss all my contacts and messenger though. Only because it’s my only means of contacting a lot of them and whit a list of nearly 800 people I feel I’ve lost a bunch of really nice discussions.

The thing that annoys me the most about this isn’t really the ban, it’s the way it happens. No warning, no explaining, nothing. And no real way of contacting to get any more information.

And yes. We’re customers. The use of the service isn’t free. We pay with our private information. Facebook live on users information and selling it to companys for ads and more. Just because we don’t pay in real cash doesn’t mean we’re not customers. We pay more in a way. If we payed cash and our information stayed private and protected from other companies it would actually be a lot better service.

So anyway. I’m pissed. Not at losing my account but the terrible way it’s handled by facebook and meta.

jonah

Yeah I got permanently banned from Facebook too and I tried to find out why but all I get is I violated community standards but the month before my account got hacked and so I disabled it and then by the time I enabled it it was over 30 days. So my 11 years of information was gone so I resigned up and that’s when Facebook permanently banned me and I can’t get a reason why out of them. And I don’t miss Facebook so much but messenger. I had a lot of international friends. The lack of being able to appeal it to a person that you can talk to that can just look at the information and not get these. You been banned for life is annoying but in some way it’s good to be banned from facebook. It was a total waste of time.

M

Jonah, you do no need Facebook messenger to keep in touch with international friends. There are plenty of messenger apps / platforms available. Viber, Telegram to name a few. They are free and allow you to send not only messages, but photos and videos.
Good luck!

Mikael Guggenheim

Yeah. My account got perm banned at the beginning of the year. No warnings or anything. Just logged on and was banned.

The reason? I had violated their community rules by posts on a linked Instagram.

The thing is, I had an Instagram account but I never post anything on it. I use it to follow my relatives and just put a like on some of their posts. I login on it like once a month.

I have no idea what I am supposed to have posted. Theirs no way to contact Facebook to know. I can’t ask Instagram either, my account their isn’t banned, it got instant deleted.

The thing that bothers me is the no explaining and no warning. I have no clue why or what was behind this. If something was posted my instant account must have been hacked or something, but you’d think a company as meta would see that it in that case used some totally new ip address or posted from anpther country/city whatever.

It just make me mad how they can do it just like that. I’m not really missing my fb, actually felt better since I got away from it (and kinda hope everyone would just leave it), but I miss my contacts and messenger.

Most of all though, it really irritates me how they can do it in such a manner and have no way for me to get any answers to why/how at all. It annoys me that a company that have that kind of next-to-none support can have any users.

Lee A Pseudogrammaton

I LITERALLY did none of those things, nor was I hacked, and I operate a major community page, and yet I got banned. TEN YEARS a member, and for naught but mere usage of the platform.

Why? From what I can surmise, B/c a page-owner deleted two of my comments about electric car ROI & redundancy features (Motor Trend … couldn’t reach the link ever again…) and I re-commented several times on “Names for Punk Bands.”

Yup, that’s all it takes to lose a FB acct now. Their algorithms are horrid & over reaching.

I’ll be migrating my community page to a more stable & independent platform and looking into indep. social venues like Mastadon.

Tj

I got banned and I don’t care. I was deleting the bs account anyway, Facebook s#cks. I deliberately wanted to get banned and I did. 😆

st7276

I have no clue as to why I was permanently banned from Facebook. I never posted anything on Facebook or communicated with anyone on that platform. Not once. The only thing I did on Facebook was to join two groups whose subject matter was a brand of teardrop trailer that I happen to own. This was a useful source of information for me. Then one day I discovered I was permanently banned. I can only assume my account was hacked or there was a complete breakdown in the AI software Facebook uses to monitor users. There is no one to appeal to or communicate with about this. It is Kafkaesque.

john Rawhten

I got banned for stating the side effects of the vaccine. Real nice of them huh? I don’t really care because everything you put on FB is used to sell you crap anyway.

Jilly Valentine

I connect to my friends but if you do a lot of posting you could get ban, I like to store videos and pictures but again its not for that stuff

Jilly Valentine

get like a account warning then it goes away

leon

face it… on fb you are the product not the customer.
If it’s free you aren’t a customer.
They don’t care wit about individuals.
They sell numbers to advertisers.
We are like the pigs saying to each other it’s nice the farmer gives us this barn to sleep in and all that free food too

andrew

well thay sell fake goods and its a world red light area for rent

Neil Schubert

To everyone that wastes advertising dollars on Facebook and meta… I tried to open a Facebook account and while opening it I was told I violated its terms and was banned. I followed the instructions, its automated garbage decided it was going to reject me for no reason. It kept saying that I violated its terms even though I didn’t do anything but try to open an account. I couldn’t have violated its terms because I hadn’t opened the account yet. Use Twitter / X. Facebook is total garbage.

gwDisqus1712

Facebook doesn’t like fake accounts? They literally have the option to create an additional profile using whatever name you want.

https://www.facebook.com/help/5637701596308695/?helpref=faq_content&_rdc=1&_rdr

You can create additional Facebook profiles from your main profile. You’ll create a profile name and @username for each profile:

These names don’t have to match the name you use in everyday life, but they must follow our Community Standards and policies for additional profiles.

The @username is unique and will appear on the additional profile.

Michelle Couch-Friedman

Yes, that is a new Facebook feature, but the masked identity must be tied to your actual Facebook profile. Facebook doesn’t allow users to independently create false/anonymous profiles.

Joe

I have a former “friend” who thought it proper to harass me on FB. Hell, he harassed EVERYBODY on Facebook. I believe he got several bans. But he’s still on there, presumably by using different emails and creating new accounts. Jason may never get access to his old photos, but he should still be able to create a new account. BTW- there are dozens of Jason Birch’s on Facebook and I’m assuming he’s back on there now too.

Shahram

I have been blocked on facebook merely for having criticized Israel. Nothing crude or offensive or aggressive… Just plain criticism. There is a hidden policy on facebook: You cannot criticize Israel. You cannot defend the rights and human rights of Palestinians.

Mad User

Banned since end of June 2024. I am not sure why other than I posted a picture of my daughter who was going to be selling her goat at a local fair. I know TONS of other folks who shared the same of their kids and they still have accounts. I was told by FB that I got an email stating why my account was banned for six months but I did not receive an email. It also said something about looking at my Instagram account to see what standards were violated by I could not find anything. I still have an Instagram acct. I emailed and You Tubed a bunch of different ways to try to get a response and nothing. It is very irritating… I have a lot of years of business and photos on there.

ashley cropper

ive been locked from facebook since 1st nov

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