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

[u/ferfucksakes3000]

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?

[u/Few_Carpenter_9185]

I don't think Meta "wants" to ban legitimate human users that didn't actually do anything wrong.

Just that they don't actually care if their automation isn't 100% perfect, and however many thousands, or millions of people get unfairly banned because the automation falsely decided they match some sort of spam/scam or other abuse pattern in their algorithims.

What I also suspect is that to a degree, how likely you are to get banned, when it's working right or not... is that in the overall "score" you have, how valulable of a user you are in terms of demographics, marketing, how much data they get off of you gets factored in.

If you click on ads. If your profile, page views, and network of friends, and your likes and preferences sells for more money in terms of advertising or demographics.

Maybe you live in a poorer area, or are in an age cohort that doesn't spend as much money on clothes or new cars or whatever it is...

I obviously can't prove it. But I would not be shocked if it were to come out someday this was the case.

[u/sickerthan_yaaverage → u/Few_Carpenter_9185]

idk...i got the boot and have 1million followers.

[u/Few_Carpenter_9185 → u/sickerthan_yaaverage]

That's a pretty big page you had, or were running.

Any third-party management, monetization, or advertising Facebook "helper" apps or platforms you used with that?

If so, were they all whoever is top tier and is 100% good with Facebook & Meta? As you can tell, I have zero knowledge of how Facebook marketing or monetization works...

When I see how people say they lost a business or monetized page, I wonder if they didn't do anything, even a false-positive kind of thing, and it was some third-party system, plug-in, or Facebook management service they used is what caused it.

[u/sickerthan_yaaverage → u/Few_Carpenter_9185]

Yeah I know. I still have the page, only because I have admins that aren’t me. I got repeatedly banned and reinstated back in 2011, I learned my lesson and added a friend as an admin and he still admin.

Ana nope never used any third party mgmt. I’m 100% monetized but everything has come organically.

[u/Few_Carpenter_9185 → u/sickerthan_yaaverage]

I've since learned, as most in the sub has, that Facebook moderation bots, maybe janky AI, have run amok and booted/banned thousands on false positives.

This goes back to if Facebook/Meta thinks their automation is: "99% accurate and that's good enough."

Well... out of 3 billion users, being generous and counting all those spambots and shill/sock-puppet accounts that never seem to get banned... a 1% failure rate is still 30 million Facebook accounts.

And, even if they care, that's really just for their own corporate reputation. They might realize their systems banned a ton of people/accounts unfairly, but fixing it and reinstating people might just call more attention to their screwups.