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".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.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.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).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.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).