What happened with my facebook id..

On November 8th. 2022, Lord Mark Zukerberg lost his Facebook account. It was disabled. 

https://www.ilounge.com/news/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-profile-gets-disabled

Facebook restored the account a day later, but there was no explanation of what happened and how the account was restored. Also, there are no posts after 4th November, which is strange, given that the FB founder did make a very public apology about the layoffs on November 9th. Today, more than a fortnight later, there isn't a single post on the Zuck profile page.

There is no official statement and as far as I can make out, no unofficial buzz on the security channels either. 

Par for the course? 

As it turns out, this is not the first time this has happened at Facebook. 

In 2011, a namesake of Lord Zuckerberg found that his account had been arbitrarily suspended. 

https://www.webpronews.com/why-did-facebook-disable-mark-zuckerbergs-account/

In November 2019, some more accounts were disabled without any explanation or comment. They had to file a change petition because .. well, there is NO WAY in heaven that you can reach FFB support and get a real answer (more on that later) 

https://www.change.org/p/mark-zuckerberg-please-fix-our-disabled-facebook-profiles

In April 2022, the same thing happened again, to dozens of users. After the NY Times wrote about it, the accounts were apparently restored. 

In fact, it is so common that Google automatically suggests "disabled for no reason" when you type "My facebook account was di" 

There are Youtube videos to help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydp-nRmxG4Q

What can you do? 

Well, you can prove your identity by uploading an official ID document. 

But here's the thing - after compromising your account, FB expects you to trust it with an official ID document? Like, in which metaverse is that logical? 

Also, an appeal is to an authority. FB is not an authority. its a service provider that takes our data and gives us its servers. Simple. But if our account has been compromised, it needs to tell us why. 

On November 12th, my account was disabled 

Which was shocking. 

But then, I googled a little bit. 

The first thing i tried to do was to download my information. 30 minutes later, it was still "Creating Download". 

However, thanks to FB wanting to spy on you all the time, what it does is, when you log out, it keeps your profile on the browser. Then, when you login using another id, it still allows you to see how many notifications that logged out account has, and in this case, I realised that over 50 profiles had been made on my name. 

Let's see this: 

This is a logged out account, but another user on this computer can still see how many notifications this account has. 

At this point, we remove that account and try to login using another id. 

Now, I login using another id. And this is what happens: 

This is how I knew that 50+ profiles were made within a few hours on the night of November 12, 2022, on my original account. Note taht it is showing me this information while that account is neither logged in nor saved on browser. In fact, has been expressly removed from the browser. 

When we click on that see all profiles thing, this popup appears: 

Et viola! Both accounts are back on the browser! 

Thank you, Facebook, for being so helpful!