I was banned because of a security flaw in Facebook’s password recovery system
I'm currently in much the same limbo: some geezer with an IP from the other side of the world logged into my fb account, changed password and phone number and likely  did a bunch of unsavory stuff that broke the fb "community guidelines".<p>My account has now been  "under review" since Saturday which means I can't log in, and my messenger, my fb profile and the associated businesses and groups that I manage have all disappeared from fb.<p>Having googled around my initial hopes that it will soon be resolved has flatlined: there seems to have been a surge of this lately and nobody that I have seen have had their access back (the reviewers have been fired?). I will likely loose my WhatsApp as well, judging by the reports.<p>Of course I realize that as an unpaying user of Meta products people might say "serves you right for being stupid". But I don't buy that. Fb is the de facto online directory of ordinary people (not counting much of the HN crowd as "ordinary" here).<p>It's totally unreasonable (understatement) that fb can effectively erase me and my online history and business without recourse because their systems leak and they don't have manpower who can do a human review of the facts in the case.<p>In the short term I'll be looking for other solutions, in the longer term I'll be supporting calls for making services like fb a public utility, with certain legal obligations (like not erasing online presences).