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My Facebook account has disappeared without a trace, after having been disabled and publicly reinstated by Facebook months before [1]. I don't understand how is this level of incompetence tolerated at a company that wants to mediate social connections and own the metaverse. Will I be forever banished from a part of society because your primitive algorithms are allowed to make incontestable decisions without true oversight? As Facebook's services are increasingly the only way to interact with modern society, permanently locking out people can alter lives. We deserve due process. [1] https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946

Facebook will delete your account without notice, even after they've messed with your account once and reinstated it after making the issue public. https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946#issuecomment-88337... Facebook employees will ignore your calls for help, and there is no proper way to contact them regarding a disappeared account. You have to pretend to be an active Facebook user in order to access services tailored to developers, such as Wit.ai. Imagine having to like YouTube videos and subscribe to channels, maybe post a comment sometimes in order to not wake up with your Google Cloud instances gone without notice. That's how Facebook developer services operate.

And regarding the corporate exploitation of open source projects, I've just discovered that a Facebook employee reimplemented the app [1] using actions and published it using the same name and configuration syntax on the GitHub Marketplace [2], so I can no longer publish my app without renaming the project. Facebook was using my app in the React Native repository, until they have replaced it with their own implementation [3]. It would be nice if they weren't jerks and at least not casually seize the project name, but here we are. Meanwhile I'm still banned from Facebook for no reason, after I've recently signed up to use Wit.ai, and they illegally hold control of my personal data on Facebook and Wit.ai. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033510 https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946 [1] https://github.com/hramos/label-actions [2] h

I have also created a Facebook account to use their NLP service, Wit.ai. The Facebook account has received an automated block, and they've kept it blocked after a manual review which has asked for a photo of my face. Now they have a photo of my face, my legal name and date of birth, my verified email address and phone number, and I cannot exercise any control over this data, only download it, which is obviously illegal under GDPR. Facebook engineers from Wit.ai are ignoring my request for help and the app APIs remain operational, I just can't log into the dashboard. If you're a developer who considers using Wit.ai, be careful. You could receive an automated block from Facebook and an overworked contractor will rubber-stamp the bot's decision, while Wit.ai staff will ignore you. https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946