similar thing happened to me, my recently opened Instagram account was suspended saying that it was being used for spam (even though there were no posts or comments, only liking and saving other people's posts), and allowed me to get it back only after adding a phone number.

> got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible

This is exactly what happened to me as well.

Same. I had a deactivated account from 2015 I could no longer access .

Subsequent attempts to make new ones were instantly banned for “no reason.”

They did work with me to reinstate the 2015 account. And it’s never been banned or suspended since. I don’t really use it anyway.

But that’s how they are. They trust older accounts. New ones are treated like criminals.

But if the deactivated account was still there for you to try and access and for fb to reactivate it and then you come and try to impersonate that old account with a new one the system has good reasons not let you do that and not telling the potential identity thief about these reasons is the right way to do it.

I see your point: Facebook is known for having “shadow profiles” on people who have never used Facebook in their lives.

So to them, “this is the profile we’ve decided is amy “ and “this one isn’t.” Even if it is….

I agree with you too and I think most of this is automated. A client triggered this like you did and the only way I found was to get a dedicated phone with a new sim (for social media accounts). I don't even dare to check if the trigger account is still there (they promised to delete it after some time) - I know the one from before that, which triggered the ban is still fine - nothing happening there in 8 years. Why can't it be simple like skype in the old days when Mum made a new account every time she forgot her password...

This is exactly why I _haven't_ deleted my account. Until the make a way for me to 100% delete my data, removing my own access to it seems counterproductive.

Aren't most services demanding multifactor id these days? Ostensibly to defend against fraud, but nicely dovetails into their surveillance databases.

I think it mainly affects users who opted into FB's SSO feature across their other services.