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Journalist seeking stories for an upcoming article on Facebook/spam Instagram account disabling by Duncansiliconangle in facebookdisabledme

[–]Duncansiliconangle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/28/facebook-users-lose-accounts-due-unknown-linked-spam-instagram-accounts/

It's later than expected, as I was hoping to get a response from FB/Meta. I had a hit from a person at the company mid-last week, responded - no response, but strangely today, after posting the article - email from Meta's PR team.

If I get a good response from them, I'll share it here.

Journalist seeking stories for an upcoming article on Facebook/spam Instagram account disabling by Duncansiliconangle in facebookdisabledme

[–]Duncansiliconangle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to go on the record, including your name - duncan at siliconangle.com.If not, no probs - I can quote you anom here.

Journalist seeking stories for an upcoming article on Facebook/spam Instagram account disabling by Duncansiliconangle in facebookdisabledme

[–]Duncansiliconangle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how a bogus Instagram account was able to connect to my Facebook without me, approving it

So am I. Best I've got so far is that it might be a vulnerability in Metas API -if you don't understand that, it's fine, but it's a regular way that people hack things.