Meta is deleting the Facebook and Instagram accounts of hack victims – Metro UK

‘What’s going on with your Instagram account?’ reads a text from a friend that I clock just before jumping out of bed and shooting off to Saturday morning yoga. Blurry-eyed, I open the app to find my usual feed of holiday spam and dog memes has been replaced with a notice: ‘We suspended your account… there are 30 days remaining to disagree with this decision.’ Dumbfounded, I dig a little deeper to understand why this has happened and learn that the problem lies with my linked Facebook account. An email from Meta sent at 5.08am warns me: ‘someone may have accessed your account’, followed by a second at 5.09am stating that my Facebook has been suspended because my page – or ‘activity on it’ – ‘doesn’t follow our Community Standards’. It immediately became clear – I’d been hacked. And if the emails weren’t proof enough, I’m able to get into my Facebook account and review the four posts that had been published on without my knowledge. Lo and behold, they’re what seem to be terrorist propaganda imagery, going against Facebook’s standards on ‘dangerous individuals and organisations’. They’d even tried to purchase over £1,000 worth of Facebook advertising to boost the
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