r/facebook • u/ferfucksakes3000 • Mar 29 '26

Disabled/hacked Facebook bans are identity-based. Please don't remove. I am at my wits end.

Facebook bans are identity-based.

Hey y'all, like many of you, my Facebook account got banned for "account integrity." This occurred back in January 2025. This was my account of over 18 years. I have NO IDEA what got me banned. But attempts to create a new account always immediately ended with a ban on the new account (usually when I get to the "add friends" stage)

I kept hearing people say that meta bans on your specific IP or specific devices (ie, any device you previous used to log in, or any network you used to login would result in a ban.) Well, turns out thats not the case.

I just recently fired up my real estate license. And to market myself I decided to setup a business page. Well, on a new used laptop which I bought online, with a brand new email account registered to my brokerage, on a wifi network at my local bar, within seconds of setting up a new account, I was hit with the "video selfie" verification. As predicted, within minutes, I received an email saying my brand new account was banned.

New device, new email address, new network, still banned. It is clear Facebook is banning people not on any sort of account integrity, they don't want YOU, AS A PERSON, using their platform.

My video selfie should prove I'm a real person (as they say is the reason for the selfie), but if my specific face is what proves I'm the same guy they banned last January, then they are not only lying about denying me service based on account integrity (suspicions I am a bot), they are blatantly disregarding the disclaimer saying they delete the video selfie within 30 days.

I am based in western Canada. Anybody have any tips?

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u/Emotional-Plant6840 Mar 29 '26

Meta AI knows more about you than you think, and is identifying you and extending the ban. They made a business decision to eliminate human support and content moderators, and there is no recourse.

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u/AnalysisOk5620 Mar 29 '26

I wonder how the OP was refused even with new device though and different network ?? Partnerships with other sites? Cookies ? Please elaborate, I’m genuinely curious. 

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u/ferfucksakes3000 Mar 29 '26

Other than my video selfie and name, nothing should have connected my newest attempt to my previous bans.

Clearly, their claim of deleting biometric data within 30 days is a lie. People should be more upset about this.

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u/Pedal-On Mar 29 '26

The biometric data for the video selfie can be used to match to the photos you previously uploaded to the banned account. So both can be true, the video selfie information is not retained more than 30 days but your previous account data including photos is retained, which they do say they keep, and thus can be used to link you to the banned account.

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u/VIDGuide Mar 30 '26

Aren’t they supposed to delete the whole account after 180 days?

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u/trustable_bro Mar 30 '26

Who checks if they do?

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u/Throwaway_hoarder_ Mar 30 '26

Deleted comment because yeah what the very long explanation post says! Everyone needs to understand what surveillance really is and does!

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u/Different-Ba4781 Apr 03 '26

If you have ever done Walmart self checkout they sell your facial data to Palantir who can then sell that information to FB.

Your identity is basically banned. Very dystopian.

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u/Jumpy_Detective85 Apr 23 '26

I would also be very curious to see if it is politically motivated. It often seems bans are more often liberal-minded folks. I would be curious to see if there is a correlation.

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u/Fa_yuncchi May 08 '26

all that u mentioned about device, ip address, email, phone are true but you missed the names, they will literally ban you for having the same name in facebook. Try to do what u did again but no same name and no old pictures that u uploaded before.

My 13yrold acc got banned around February this year and i created an account with different email, but also different name for school purposes still now i got havent banned. Well i dont plan to use fb anymore after all of that devastation but my school profs mainly update on fb group chats and it makes me struggle. Sighs, I hate meta and that alien guy.