Ask HN: Know anyone who works at Facebook? Refugee aid group needs help ASAP

#1

Post by jtfairbank » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

Hey HN! I'm in contact with a fairly major refugee aid group in Europe. Someone maliciously reported a bunch of their posts as spam, and their page was unpublished. They appealed this, didn't get a reply for 48 hours, and today it looks like the page has been deleted.

This is a HUGE problem, and significantly disrupts their ability to communicate with volunteers, other aid groups, and donors.

If you work at facebook, or know someone who does, could you please get in touch? jtfairbank /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Re: Ask HN: Know anyone who works at Facebook? Refugee aid group needs help ASAP

#2

Post by GeneralG » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 9:46 AM UTC

If they are fairly major your best bet is for their media team to contact their local and national news and international news outlets to run a story.

If you want to help, search for journalists that have written about them before and reach out to them as they are more likely to help you.

Re: Ask HN: Know anyone who works at Facebook? Refugee aid group needs help ASAP

#3

Post by jtfairbank » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 10:27 AM UTC

GeneralG wrote: post #2

If they are fairly major your best bet is for their media team to contact their local and national news and international news outlets to run a story. If you want to help, search for journalists that have written about them before and reach out to them as they are more likely to help you.

They are big in the grassroots aid movement running important projects in multiple countries, but they aren't the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders big.

Hoping to get this resolved before they have to try and publicly call out Facebook, but you're right- that seems to be the only way to get tech orgs to take a minute to care about situations like these.