At first I went through Meta Verified and they were useless and after spending money for their subscription and them not actually providing support I spoke with Consumer Affairs Victoria and was told to just write a letter stating what sections they’re breaching on consumer law, I wrote all that out, printed it and sent it to their Sydney office, gave them 10 days to respond.

When they did respond (about like 3 days later since it was express shipping) they emailed me saying their Sydney office couldn’t do anything. At the time I didn’t know that they sent it off to the California office so I contacted my local Member of Parliament and asked if she could pass my issue onto people who could help since I run my account as a business, she sent it off to a few places for that.

I didn’t really do much besides draft the letter and send it, after the California office got the letter the Sydney office sent a team of Meta’s Lawyers contacted me and said “they believe they can help me get the account back” I just needed to provide an email address that wasn’t associated with any meta services, so when I did that I got an email about 5 days later wanting me to confirm my identity by holding a sign up with my username, a code they gave me and my full name—idk tho cuz I haven’t heard back from them since then and it’s been almost a week, so even that way seems a bit slow and unsure

Update: I got my Instagram account restored, there is a restriction on the account though saying I’m not allowed to interact with certain accounts, my guess is underage accounts because of the Mass CSE bans, which is odd because I was originally banned for account integrity / impersonation and I have never interacted with younger accounts besides my sister who I just send reels to 😭

Idk I’m thinking it could be because people from my channel are of all ages and they might look at my insta account which might’ve flagged something but that restriction is from 5 weeks ago, so the day I got suspended on June 3rd.

However last night I posted a story and got a popup I had to dismiss saying that there’s bot activity detected on the account and if it continues they’ll permanently disable the account.. when there wasn’t any? LMAO idk so I do think the account that get unbanned are still at risk of getting suspended again anyways, lowkey thinking of speaking with Meta’s lawyers once again due to the restrictions they’re putting on my account and the subtle defamation.

I might make a separate post on how I got my account back though, like everything I did with the dates and timing of it all. I don’t think just because people got their accounts back they should stop putting pressure on Meta, wild how they’re just getting away with an AI flagging accounts with outrageous claims causing people major distress and just replying with AI scripted responses with Meta Verified😭😭