Facebook Purge - October 2019 - Are pages getting deleted?

It certainly is. I went through 5000 posts to remove anything vaguely edgy. That’s what their Indian customer service rep told me to do. Example: Don’t disrespect Buddha. No joke.

For 4 weeks now, the zero reach message keeps extending past its deadline. Page is good for 1-2 days then gets a new red message and new “temporary” restriction date. I’m chasing the wind. Demanded a supervisor and we’ll see whether she has any control over the situation. At this point, I’m thinking the AI has taken over FB and is holding humans hostage (or has terminated them).

Hello! Besides these issues we all encounter such as: Stories from your Page is not being shown in News Feed. This could be due to activities from your Page that do not comply with Facebook’s policies. This limit is temporary and expires, I still have a problem with the group I manage. In addition to recently reaching 0 for all posts after I changed it from public to private, I receive this restriction: You’re temporarily restricted from joining and posting to groups, which extends from day to day. Has anyone happened to that? If so, did he find a solution?

india is democracy, criticising anything is allowed here…

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That’s probably a reach ban, happened on my pages a couple of time in the past few months, usually goes away after a week, and I don’t think you need to appeal to fb for that because I had a friend with same problem and his page got restored after a week without him appealing.

I was told not to disrespect Buddha by a FB supervisor. Apparently, she didn’t get the news. Her name was Indian, to be sure. It’s a common Indian name. FB is like a cult.

Unless it keeps renewing automatically and extends itself indefinitely. So, the expiration date is extended a day after it’s met – with no additional violations showing up. I went through 4 years of posts and deleted anything could conceivably be considered edgy (including paintings by Caravaggio and Raphael). We’ll see what happens Monday when the newest one is supposed to expire. It will be the end of week 5. Sucks. I need this page.

Recently, I tried to give the editor role to another account for my pages, and 2 of them were unpublished in one second, so be careful if you want to do this.

Can you give some more info about who’s account you were adding to admin role…

I think you added it to more pages ?

Also one of my accounts, an account that was made 3 months ago and was confirmed both with the phone number, with an identity document + identity confirmed.

Yes, I gave the role on 5 pages out of which 2 were made unpublished.

Well if you do alot add remove page role on page in short time from one profile and add special account to multiple pages this will happen for sure
Earlier fb used to logout profile and ask if any suspicious activity happen from account …

Yeah. You will send some calls in the hope that they will publish them.

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My zero-reach restriction got lifted this morning. I won’t post anything for a week and see if it holds, or if a new week is slapped on the page. I went through many thousands of posts and removed ANYTHING at all edgy, including artwork with mild nudity and any post related to any drugs. We’ll see what happens.

It looks like things have calmed down a bit. Does this mean it’s save to buy pages again?

It appears as though I got my page back.

  1. Original page reach suspension was by bots who saw a boob. Although I was literally in compliance with Community Standards, bots didn’t see it that way.

  2. Subsequent suspensions were by human moderators with poor training, no time, and who must make snap decisions. Thus, they relied on what offends their personal sensibilities, not what’s against Community Standards.

  3. After deleting anything that couldn’t appear in a Disney movie (classical paintings with nudity, images of cannabis, a Buddha meme), my page passed by the prudish mods’ sensibilities.

  4. This is day three. I am not whether sure my reach is completely back to normal, but I attribute this to lack of posting. I’m hoping reach is back up to previous levels within 2-4 weeks.

It has not been an enjoyable experience, but I am grateful to have my page back. I’m staying away from ANY controversial post for the foreseeable future. It’s had a chilling effect and will make my page more bland, which is fine with FB, I’m sure.

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How long did it take them to reply to your appeal? I appealed a single page 3 weeks ago and no response yet, then a week later appealed all of my unpublished pages in bulk through chat support, because I found what could have been their issue but no response from there either.


This happened on my other big page today. Do you think the page will be unpublished after Nov 21?
Ever happened to you?

Page limit still present. My pages suffering from this issue since april 2019. And they didn’t unpublished any page yet just put restriction for 2 time till 14 days in a month. My one page getting suffering from 0 reach issue and another from block to add new admin for merger. I noticed that restriction limit time extending notification appear while publishing article on website and converting to instant article nothing to do with page or posting. Facebook suck

India is not democratic country anymore its become hardcore nationalist hindu rashtra. And Facebook is taken over by bjp government. Facebook already announced that they taken down some pages that related to opposition parties and criticized modi. mine pages was one of them.

Some of my pages seem to have reach back now but it is so much lower than before (maybe 10% of what if used to be) :confused:

I have a page back after it was unpublished