Facebook account suspended

Droolinggimp · 7 Sep 2022 at 07:45

About 4 days ago I woke to check my groups on Fb and was welcomed with a suspicions activity notice and its was suspended. I appealed the decision and just waiting now.
A friend told me he saw lots of Arabic writing on images which I will assume was hate related. I have fired off a few emails to an assortment of FB address. It's a real pain in the bum having this done as I post in terrain modelling groups on my WW2 terrain boards updates, help towards running a Static Caravan for a friend plus various other important things. I know FB gets bad rep, but some like my self use it for more than posting memes and commenting on Karen posts.

I have since made a new account purely to keep up to date with these group and school related things and literally only added 5 people who I need to keep in touch with, hoping I get my account back.

Apparently reviewing accounts will take longer than normal due to Covid.

Anyone else had this happen to them? rather infuriating to say the least.

I will add, I checked my email address used for FB and it was in a data breach a few day prior, so will assume that is the reason this has happened. I have changed all passwords that may have used.

peterwalkley · 7 Sep 2022 at 07:49

Good luck. They should be able to tell it wasn't you from the IP address of where the offensive posts were uploaded from. When you do get your account back its worth just posting an apology to anyone who might have seen them.

I can't remember if FB uses two factor auth, but if it does - there's a good reason to be using it.

EDIT: Yes it does and I've just switched mine on ... :rolleyes:

Practise what you preach

Efour · 7 Sep 2022 at 07:50

I get a 30 day ban every 31 days because I need to tell people on BBC London they are literally ******* morons.

Don't worry about it just make the new account get on with lifeold account will be back in a month or 2 then you can keep inciting jihad from the safety of your NordVPN.

Droolinggimp · 7 Sep 2022 at 08:00

peterwalkley said:
Good luck. They should be able to tell it wasn't you from the IP address of where the offensive posts were uploaded from. When you do get your account back its worth just posting an apology to anyone who might have seen them.

I can't remember if FB uses two factor auth, but if it does - there's a good reason to be using it.

Yeah I will make a post or two if it gets resolved. I do see I have 100+ notifications on my suspended account on the log in screen on the PC as we use the one click log in at home, wife has an account as well.

Rroff · 7 Sep 2022 at 08:05

Facebook is weird - one of my friends had their account banned, then reduced to a 60 day suspension then a week on appeal due to posting some strongly worded stuff (no swearing but quite abrasive) in response to someone mistreating animals and now has 30 days of account restrictions, while the person they were reacting to has seemingly had no action taken against them despite the content of their posts.

Droolinggimp · 7 Sep 2022 at 08:08

Same with me a few years back. In our works private group page we were discussing Travellers, you know which I mean, because we used to get them in all the time and always caused so much trouble (worked in a pub), in one of our discussions I used the word Gypsie. A day later I was banned for a 4 days

BUDFORCE · 7 Sep 2022 at 08:31

Efour said:
I need to tell people on BBC London they are literally ******* morons.

It's true though.

randomshenans · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:16

I got a 3 month ban for calling someone a ****.

I'd delete the thing if it wasn't for pages I manage on there. I never use it personally. It's deleted from my phone

something daft already!! · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:17

People still use Facebook?

Semple · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:32

Wow I thought Facebook didn't give a **** what people posted! I guess they're trying to clean up their act now.

aVdub · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:36

The Facebook Karen's have become worse since Covid, with many groups suffering from what has always been permitted, now not being allowed.

I've won a few appeals in the past, but a recent one, which I proved the Karen to be wrong, was not reversed.

glenimp617 · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:41

Rroff said:
Facebook is weird - one of my friends had their account banned, then reduced to a 60 day suspension then a week on appeal due to posting some strongly worded stuff (no swearing but quite abrasive) in response to someone mistreating animals and now has 30 days of account restrictions, while the person they were reacting to has seemingly had no action taken against them despite the content of their posts.

I did this. The only conclusion I can come up with, is that facebook enjoys and supports animal cruelty. Everytime I report one of those videos it gets rejected.

dlockers · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:44

You must have fallen for a phishing scam (either on FB or website where you use the same credentials).

This is a you problem, not a FB problem.

Efour · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:47

I wrote something about wishing a pedophilie died in prison = 30 day ban.

Said most Americans were idiots =30 day ban

2 gangs in London had A machete fight, I wished they killed each other at least = 30 day ban.

Just zero sense of humour or point to FB anymore.

dlockers · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:50

Efour said:
I wrote something about wishing a pedophilie died in prison = 30 day ban.

Said most Americans were idiots =30 day ban

2 gangs in London had A machete fight, I wished they killed each other at least = 30 day ban.

Just zero sense of humour or point to FB anymore.

Maybe refrain from posting utter nonsense?

Rroff · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:51

TheOracle said:
I did this. The only conclusion I can come up with, is that facebook enjoys and supports animal cruelty. Everytime I report one of those videos it gets rejected.

Seems the AI can't really tell context and doesn't like posts which infer physical violence even when to a human they are clearly not threats and the human moderators seem leery to go against the system.

Efour · 7 Sep 2022 at 10:55

dLockers said:
Maybe refrain from posting utter nonsense?

Impossible. The voices tell me to do it.
You must be extremely special to take offense at that nonsense, or a machine.
The collective you, not you.

Rroff said:
Seems the AI can't really tell context and doesn't like posts which infer physical violence even when to a human they are clearly not threats and the human moderators seem leery to go against the system.

Nail on head. It's almost certain that having an edgy word or 2 out of context will be triggering an automated response that follows a 3 strike rule, hence progressively harsh punishment for minor infractions.

aVdub · 7 Sep 2022 at 11:01

It has caused issues on some well known WWII groups that are now banned from including insignia of the third reich, even when it is a famous picture of GI's holding up captured nazi flags.

One I posted was German generals and the like looking ahead, with the caption - Dinghies, if only we had thought of that. In relation to the English channel and refugees. 30 Day ban.

Rroff · 7 Sep 2022 at 11:09

Efour said:
Impossible. The voices tell me to do it.
You must be extremely special to take offense at that nonsense, or a machine.
The collective you, not you.

Nail on head. It's almost certain that having an edgy word or 2 out of context will be triggering an automated response that follows a 3 strike rule, hence progressively harsh punishment for minor infractions.

Where she said something along the lines of "these kind of people need shooting" probably didn't help.

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Sep 2022 at 11:59

randomshenans said:
I'd delete the thing if it wasn't for pages I manage on there. I never use it personally. It's deleted from my phone

something daft already!! said:
People still use Facebook?

I think FB is going out of favour now. ^^ I've never used it on my phone and I haven't checked it on desktop since mid-May. For friends updates, I use Signal. For family, I use WhatsApp because they haven't wised up to using Signal yet

aVdub said:
It has caused issues on some well known WWII groups that are now banned from including insignia of the third reich, even when it is a famous picture of GI's holding up captured nazi flags.

For those wanting to access discussion groups such as WWII, would @Droolinggimp + others on here consider using Reddit? It is much better as a forum than Facebook is in terms of how the site is structured. Each forum starts with /r and so examples for WWII would be /r/worldwar2 and /r/ww2. So if you look at those to begin with, you can see more suggested communities and drill down further to what you're looking for.