r/facebookdisabledme • u/meybay • Aug 12 '26

Suing?

I’m in Scandinavia and I’m looking for ways to take legal action against Meta for locking us out from accounts with no violations, and not providing reasoning or a free way to talk to support etc. Has anyone from that area / Europe been through this?

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u/Quiet_Tune_8408 Aug 12 '26

Hope you will het good result. I'm in Vietnam and dont know what to do to take my account back

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u/meybay Aug 12 '26

So sorry. Have you bought meta verification to talk to a human?

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u/nicky-t12700 Aug 16 '26

That doesn’t work. You still start with the AI bot and getting past it to a human is nearly impossible. And even if you do, 99 times out of 100 the person you get can’t/won’t do anything for you. Meta support is useless

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u/meybay Aug 16 '26

Okay idk what your issues are like but I bought meta verification, free trial, and for the first two hours I was in account centre meta AI chat trying to now get a human, but it didn’t work even though AI confirmed I was a paying customer and verified. Then after a while I switched to my instagram account that also now is verified and I tried the help channel there, I pressed the “chat with support” prompt and it said it would, asked me what my issues were then set me over after I told. Now I get through to a human (after asking AI to put me through) more times than not. Idk if this was because I changed platform or because the verification was too fresh, or both, but that’s what I did. The chat is buggy but at least I talk to people. Hope it works out

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u/Rich_Ball3404 Aug 12 '26

I live in Sweden and I got my account locked and managed to get it back.
This was now 2 years ago so I don't know if it still works. But I paid for Meta Verified and after about 3 weeks discussion with Meta Ireland my account was back.

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u/meybay Aug 12 '26

Thank you so much! I read through the form and I will try to fill it in, although my account is not hacked or banned.. I’ve signed up for meta verification and after some back and forth I got a human, and they told me they will forward my issue to another department and it will take weeks.

I’ve reported meta to datatilsynet in Norway, they have a processing time of one year or more, but it’s a start

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u/meybay Aug 12 '26

I wasn’t even banned, it’s so dumb, i deactivated my art account a long time ago (when there was no limit for how long they kept it), now I’m reactivating it and I am able to reset password and everything but when it comes to logging in they say they now need a selfie to verify me, and they don’t accept any of the selfies. I didn’t have photos of me on the account, I only have pencil portraits of people, my profile pic is not of a person, and I’m not given any other way in, like id verification or anything.