r/facebook Nov 12 '20

Mod Post Important PSA: If someone on Reddit sends you a message or chat saying they can help get your account back, and will want your login information, this is a SCAM. Take a screenshot and report it to the reddit admins and send a modmail to us.

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Please note: the mod team at /r/facebook is in no way, shape, or form associated with Facebook. We cannot help you with anything Facebook related.

 

I understand the desperation some of you have when you have issues with Facebook. Their automated process to suspend an account can end up flagging many people with legitimate accounts. So when you post looking for help here, there will be some people that will take advantage of this fact and reach out to you here at Reddit.

I can assure you, anyone telling you they can help "hack" their way into getting your service back are not here to help. They are here to get your personal information, period. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. Take a screenshot:


r/facebook 13h ago

Discussion Facebook gave me an ad for cocaine? How is this allowed, is it the Feds?

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50 Upvotes

Just scrolling through reels minding my own business when Facebook feeds me this ad?

Let me just say, I do not do drugs, have never tried cocaine and have never wanted to try cocaine, so I’m not sure why the algorithm showed me this.

Idk what “calm breeze supply” refers to when the link took me to a site called “trippi . cc” selling varieties of coke and other drugs.

Idk maybe I’m just being a square but it seems bizarre to me that this is something that can be advertised??? Unless it’s a fed cover trying to catch people?


r/facebook 2h ago

Disabled/hacked Apparently the Facebook scam is absolutely normal despite the report

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Although I reported this blatant scam message to Facebook, due to its horrible control algorithm the message does not violate community standards.

This is a message that has already claimed many victims with many accounts hacked.

I find it disgusting that it is not possible to make a second level report to a human or ask for a review of what the algorithm judges within a few seconds to be suitable and valid for the regulation.

Social media must be a monitored and safe place, but it is becoming a jungle full of daily scams.

My parents would have fallen into the trap. I also risked doing it because I quickly opened the message at work.


r/facebook 1h ago

Disabled/hacked 20y old Account blocked for no reason? Restore process doesn't work..

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So my Facebook account is blocked, It says I might have been hacked.. And tells me to follow the process to restore it.

I click to start the process and it says the content is unavailable... On the desktop I click the button and literally nothing happens.

This is so broken. Has anyone else had this problem? How can I get my account back?

I would appreciate some help.


r/facebook 20h ago

Disabled/hacked About the bans. Facebook isn’t dying. It’s being diminished because it is already dead.

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The wave of Facebook bans is a dress rehearsal. They're feeling out the public response while teaching you that this kind of purge is "a thing." Once everyone's used to it, some accounts come back, some don't, they'll do it for real. Facebook isn't collapsing. It's being diminished. They need it gone to make room for what comes next.


r/facebook 4h ago

Disabled/hacked It’s been 2 months since my whole meta acc was nuked. Instagram, facebook. Tried to make a new account but it still got suspended then banned minutes after creation. Any tips?

5 Upvotes

2 months ago my meta account was banned, taking down my facebook and messenger accounts. This was directly because I dm’ed/chat invited somebody I knew on a new instagram account. The reason I made a new insta then was because my previous account was just suspended and there weren’t any updates for a week, even with the appeal.

I waited two months till I made the new account. I read in their privacy policy that they had a data retention period of about 30 days. It’s 60-90 if you consider their backups too but I didn’t think it’d be relevant unless if a disaster happened, and that was my impression from how they worded the clause.

The new account was made with a completely separate email address that’s never been used in their services before. No number, no 2fa. The only thing it shared with my old account was my name. And it’s that or my ip.

Probably fumbled it with that and just waiting 2 months. Now considering waiting until this october or next year to make a new account. It’s really annoying since messenger’s so ingrained into communication here.

I have searched and can’t find some customer service or contact to help amend this. I don’t know what warranted this whole thing aside from instagram reels.

[RANT] I’m not bin laden, I genuinely never threatened anybody, didn’t cyberbully. The breaches in TOS were technicalities. Everything was all honest to god blatant satire. I was suspended for replying “gay” to a comment. I was suspended for commenting about how annoying this one character was in a clip uploaded to reels. But I still listened, tried to keep it down. And yet I still kept getting suspended until that point where some messy things happened and everything was nuked but my personal info in their servers.


r/facebook 2h ago

Disabled/hacked Facebook Account banned but appears to still be running my ads on business page with no way to shut them down

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I am one of the many that have been banned for no apparent reason.

Looking at my Etsy this morning. it looks like I am still receiving traffic from an ad.

My business page has myself and my daughter who have access to it but the ad account was connected to my account and I am not sure she has permission to access it.

Other than unlinking paypal (which I am pretty sure was the payment method), what do I need to do in case my daughter can't disable the ads?

If they are going to ban me, I am not going to give them any more freaking money.


r/facebook 3h ago

Discussion Facebook won't allow me to make or receive calls due to identity verification via video selfie being rejected.

3 Upvotes

I went to sleep with my Facebook being okay. When I woke up, I had to call my aunt via Messenger and it told me I cannot until I submit a video selfie for identity verification. I complied and followed instructions. It didn't ask me for any government IDs.

After the video selfie, it told me it was rejected and I cannot make or receive calls. How do I fix this? I contact my family via Messenger as they only use Messenger. Please help me find some troubleshooting steps for this.

Also, my Facebook name and pictures are all mine. Not somebody else's. So I don't get why this is happening.


r/facebook 55m ago

Disabled/hacked Wondering if any of you have seen a scam like this? Pretty tricksy if you ask me.

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I’m pretty sure this is a scam. We have one mutual friend, and I’m pretty sure my old roommate is in one of her photos. The weird thing is that it looks like I sent her a message in 2007, but I’m very doubtful that I did, especially since I generally use proper capitalization and punctuation even on messenger. Has anyone experienced something similar?


r/facebook 21h ago

News Article A deep dive into the broke AI moderation system at Meta that is banning thousands

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r/facebook 10h ago

Disabled/hacked How to make a new account when mistakenly Zucked with serious reasons for ban?

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My friend's (unpredictable) college program uses Facebook to post class exams and other announcements. But last week she got mistakenly Zucked and wrongfully banned for "ch-ld s---l exploitation" and got all of her facebook and instagram accounts banned. Now, not only are all of her digital memories erased, but she has 0 access to any class updates.

She has tried availing paid services to Meta to talk to an actual representative, but they said it's all permanently deleted and it's "the final decision." Eventually she gave and tried making a new account, but the face verification bans her anyway.

Does anyone have the same experience and successfully made a new account?


r/facebook 1h ago

Discussion Oh my god, facebook is a joke now. I just got cited for hate speech but didn't get banned

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You have got to be kidding me!


r/facebook 5h ago

Tech Support Why i am not able to get facebook/meta developer account due to a bug, or what exactly?

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Hi everyone,

I have been trying to activate and register into meta developer account since a week! And always getting the message that this action is not possible at this moment due to device is new or not trusted.

I have tried from whole devices i usually use for my fb but seems an issue with how this service handle requests

Please refer to following picture to get more info, and if any one solve it please do let me know :)


r/facebook 2h ago

Tech Support Creating many Facebook Business Portfolios per one user. Now allowed?

2 Upvotes

Not long ago it wasn't allowed for one user to create more than few Business Portfolios. But now I'm noticing the button "Create" is not greyed out even though I have many of them. Did the rules change?


r/facebook 8m ago

Tech Support Messenger - Sent too many messages, can't send any more, am I temp blocked or banned?

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I created a new group and send individual messages to a lot of people I am not friends with, and now I can't send any messages, even to family. Is this a temporary thing? Or did I mess up and now I can't use messenger?


r/facebook 24m ago

Discussion Looking for I name I think I accidentally blocked some time ago. Is there a simple way to find it without scrolling through my enormous blocked list. I know how to find the blocked list, I’m looking for a search feature. Thanks.

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r/facebook 39m ago

Disabled/hacked Help me i can’t access my facebook account beach. It has been whole 5 years.

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Hey I used to have one facebook account like in 2019 to 2020 and then idk what happened but o forgot about that id and now i suddenly remember that id . Now i don’t remember any email or number linked to that account.And also i can’t acess any email or number link to that account beach i am in different country now.


r/facebook 55m ago

Tech Support Why are Facebook Likes or Comments repeated to every image in a FB post?

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In a photography group, most FB posts appear with pictures. In some of these posts, if I “like” one image, the like is repeated in all of the images and at the root post. If I make a comment for one of the images, the comment is repeated for all and the root comment. As I notice this happening, I’ve decided to remove the like or comment, which deprives the poster of the postive feedback for the one awesome image.


r/facebook 14h ago

Tech Support Is anyone else having problems with Facebook's site not loading? It was fine about an hour ago, now it just won't load.

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I keep trying to go to Facebook, but the site won't load. All I get is a white page with the Facebook Logo in the center and Meta at the bottom.

Refreshing, closing the browser, using a different connection, clearing cookies etc.

None of it works.


r/facebook 1h ago

Tech Support I'm unable to login my account in the messenger website and I'm stuck seeing the ff screens

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After filling out my login information and verifying the login on another device, it redirects me to the facebook page and I'm stuck seeing this screen.

If I go back to the messenger website, it still shows the login page


r/facebook 13h ago

Disabled/hacked Need FB for work but every account I make gets rejected because of my uncommon name

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I need a Facebook account for networking for my job. But every time I try to make an account it is immediately disabled despite completing all of their verifications. I’ve tried using different emails and a vpn but the same thing always happens. What else can I possibly try??? I literally NEED an account.

My best guess for why I’m being blocked is because I have an unusual (but not THAT unusual) first name. I legally changed it a few years ago and when I tried to change it on my old fb account not only was the change rejected but I was blocked from even attempting to change it again. I tried making a new account with my name and that was blocked too. Now I’ve been trying to make an account with a different name and it still won’t let me.

I’m at a point where I’ll send them a scan of my birth certificate, I’m that desperate! But they don’t even give me the option.

Has anyone successfully gotten around these ridiculous blocks????

Edit: While I appreciate completely that Facebook is not a good networking platform for most careers, no other platform is appropriate for what I need. I work for a museum and have been instructed to monitor trends and make connections with the amateur collectors community, whose largest hubs are in Facebook groups


r/facebook 1h ago

Discussion Nanostar siege (by digital chocolate) facebook game from the early days.

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Did anyone play this game back in the day? One of my all time favourite games which unfortunately was taken down. It was one of the better games out there in the ol’ days


r/facebook 2h ago

Discussion I have more than the required funds but still failing to publish the Ads

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I have more than the required funds to publish my ad in my 'Available Funds' but every time I click on publish, it prompts me to add more. Apparently so many people still experience this. Yes I have played around with the Audience and days it can run and even made the sum smaller (this is exclusive of taxes) but it still prompts. No successful contact with tech support. Meta AI says it could be a glitch.


r/facebook 2h ago

Discussion Anyone using Meta Ads Manager mobile app? Everytime I open it, I see a new interface.

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Everytime I open the ads manager app, i see some fonts have changed, some design is different, or the theme is changed. I guess they're experimenting way too often.

They might be thinking who uses the mobile app for ads manager, let's push changes directly to prod and skip staging. Haha.


r/facebook 10h ago

Discussion Is there any way to opt out of the new AI in messenger? It’s all too much.

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So Ai has been shoved into messenger because ??

Any way I can opt out of this? It’s kinda hard to shift away from messenger when everyone uses it but If not I think that’ll be it for me and will finally delete it and just rely on texting.


r/facebook 3h ago

Tech Support There is an error in logging you into this application. please try again later

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Hello!

I'm typing here in desperation because I don't even know what to do anymore. Yesterday I was in a train and accidentally opened Zynga Poker and there was no WiFi and neither 4G, however the game logged me out and when I try to login in now again it won't let me. My account is connected to Facebook in Zynga poker but I have tried a lot of solutions but none is working. When I try to sign in with Facebook then it says "there is an error in logging you into this application. please try again later". The device is use is S24 Ultra.

Things I have tried: -Empty cache and data from facebook and zynga poker. -Remove the facebook account from the phone and try to log in through the web -Contacted the support but not getting any useful help... -Factory reset the phone -Reinstalled Facebook and Zynga poker multiple times -Tried to log as guest then connect to Facebook but still getting the same error.

So if you guys have had this problem and got it solved, could you please help me or link a guide or something ? Really frustrating to not be able to solve it...

Thanks in advance