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Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

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Post by metalised »

As an update to [0] and [1], the scammers have now completely deleted my page of 50k subscribers.

I am devastated. 10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff of smoke, just like that. And Facebook still hasn't replied to a single message. I hate to imagine what would have happened if I was an actual business...

I am reaching out to the HN community one last time. If anyone has any advice or can help me talk to an actual human being at Facebook and restore my page and ownership, please get in touch!

(or if not, at least vote / comment your own frustrations or horror stories below, to help get my story be seen by such a person, if you think this post deserves it...)

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706571
  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423

Re: Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

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Post by Datenstrom »

Not at all the same, and only a minor annoyance but a new twitter account i made a few days ago just disappeared completely with no notice or reason. I think it maybe got flagged as a bot not sure. I made it, added my real name, a picture, and followed a bunch of people I knew. Then "account not found" like two days latter but I was able to remake the same exact account. Feel a bit gaslighted. did I just imagine making it lol?

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Post by jzawodn »

Datenstrom wrote: post #2

Not at all the same, and only a minor annoyance but a new twitter account i made a few days ago just disappeared completely with no notice or reason. I think it maybe got flagged as a bot not sure. I made it, added my real name, a picture, and followed a bunch of people I knew. Then "account not found" like two days latter but I was able to remake the same exact account. Feel a bit gaslighted. did I just imagine maki…

Ask for your money back?

Re: Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

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Post by pjc50 »

Datenstrom wrote: post #2

Not at all the same, and only a minor annoyance but a new twitter account i made a few days ago just disappeared completely with no notice or reason. I think it maybe got flagged as a bot not sure. I made it, added my real name, a picture, and followed a bunch of people I knew. Then "account not found" like two days latter but I was able to remake the same exact account. Feel a bit gaslighted. did I just imagine maki…

They're very insistent on you adding a phone number.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

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Post by nopenopenopeno »

Universally necessary services like communication, healthcare, and social media (the digital plaza) can never be justly managed by private companies. It is an inherent structural contradiction that has failed and will continue to fail our society until we are willing to organize resistance beyond the realm of consumer choice.

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Post by emteycz »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #5

Universally necessary services like communication, healthcare, and social media (the digital plaza) can never be justly managed by private companies. It is an inherent structural contradiction that has failed and will continue to fail our society until we are willing to organize resistance beyond the realm of consumer choice.

Facebook page is not necessary communication. That's telephone and mobile networks. Healthcare is successfully managed by private companies all around the world - even in Europe (the funding is organized by law but still the hospitals are private companies and half of EU countries have private health insurance companies). The horrors of publicly managed social media were already tested here in Europe too and we never want to go back.

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #5

Universally necessary services like communication, healthcare, and social media (the digital plaza) can never be justly managed by private companies. It is an inherent structural contradiction that has failed and will continue to fail our society until we are willing to organize resistance beyond the realm of consumer choice.

Plenty of absolutely horrible kafkaesque experiences with the state. This is definitely not exclusively a “private company” problem.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

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Post by WillPostForFood »

new_guy wrote: post #6

Facebook is a cancer, take this as a sign to start your own social network. There's lots of 'off-the-shelf' scripts you can use (see codecanyon.net) You can rebuild your community in no time and make it better than it was.

Best communities right now are old fashion, self-hosted forums.

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Post by bko »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #5

Universally necessary services like communication, healthcare, and social media (the digital plaza) can never be justly managed by private companies. It is an inherent structural contradiction that has failed and will continue to fail our society until we are willing to organize resistance beyond the realm of consumer choice.

You're assuming that public organizations would run a more secure responsive network. My interactions with public institutions makes me doubt this assumption, especially for something as vast and complicated as facebook's network.
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