u/Stone_624

Not sure why my Original Post got immediately automatically removed, So sorry everyone apparently this page won't let me share the details of my experience with you.

Just saw I got emails 13 hours ago saying my Page had been put back online after review and are publicly visible. Small text email for 4 of my pages.

When I went to login, My account (Suspended for CSE on May 04) was back online!!

I reached out to my state AG at the end of May, and 2 months of back and forth they reached out to Meta twice on my behalf.

I also sent a Demand Letter on July 17.

Account reinstated on August 13. Total 13 weeks.

Keep hope up that everyone in similar situations will get their accounts back.

( r/facebookdisabledme banned me and r/facebook removed this post immediately, No idea why)
I just noticed this morning that I got 4 emails 13 hours ago saying simply

"Hello,

After reviewing your appeal, your Page [PAGE NAME] has been published. This means it can now be viewed publicly.

The Facebook Team"

When I logged into my Facebook account, It worked and I was back online!!!!

Immediately got contact info from my friends I'd lost contact with and sighed the biggest sigh of relief in months.

TIMELINE - (3 Months 9 days // 13 Weeks)

* Purely informational for others in similar situations to know what they might expect

May 05 1:15am (local time)
Mid-messenter message I got a noticication to login for account security purposes.
While trying to login, See an email saying my account was suspended for violating community guidelines on CSE. I submitted an appeal which was instantly rejected, getting an email saying my account was permanently disabled and could not be appealed (by 1:30am , less than 15 minutes total). This impacted my Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Threads, and Business Suite apps.
I used a different Instagram business page and bought Meta Verified to contact support , Who had a human log in with a Screenshare to see the error I was getting on Instagram, and told me to wait and it would resolve.
By mid next day, my Instagram and Threads accounts had started working properly again, But Facebook, Messenger, and Business suite were still locked out.

May 12
After searching for support on Reddit and additional Meta Verified support , The support said because CSE is the most severe restriction type, normal support could not help, and because the appeal decision was already made, I'd have to request Meta's Oversight Board to review the decision, and I needed have a separate email not associated with a Meta Product to receive an outreach from Meta once they reviewed the case. I made a new email and tried to escalate, but you have to have a "Case ID" associated with the restriction, which I didn't have. Support said to use that support case number, which didn't work (wrong format). So no luck there. Every other support outreach I tried was AI "The decision is final and we can't do anything"

May 25 / 26
At suggestions of reddit after searching for further options, Filed complaints with my State Attorney General (Ohio) and FTC over false accusations against me (and noted that the number of people being accused of the same thing suggested this is a large scale issue affecting many people) - In addition to personal I lost access to business pages and cited financial and reputational damages.

June 04
Received a reply from my AG affirming they would help me, asking for account details and that same new email not associated with any meta products.

June 17
Received a reply from my AG that they have begun my case and sent a request to Meta and would expect to receive a response soon.

July 02
Received a reply from my AG saying Facebook responded that "I indicated that I was not located in the US" . I work in Japan but maintain a residence and valid State Drivers License in my home state, where I was born and raised all the way up through university graduation. My Facebook account was created in my state 5 years before I moved abroad for the first time. Also I was physically in the US for work at the time I received this email.

Even though the AG said they couldn't help me since they received the response from Meta saying they considered the issue closed,I pushed back saying this seems like the laziest cop-out possible , And unacceptable for a company with the size and resources of Meta , (which my AG seems to agree with).

July 14-16
I asked for a followup from my AG and got a reply aksing for my Drivers License , which I sent.

July 17
I drafted and sent a Demand Letter via Certified Mail to Meta Headquarters and their Registered agent (CSC) in my state to put more pressure on and prepare for further steps. I noted the Financial and Reputational losses for our businesses due to lost access and the false response to my AG inquiry regarding my location.

July 29
Received a reply from my AG that they had reached back out with my explanation and Drivers license and awaiting a response.

August 14 (this morning)
Received the 4 emails from Facebook saying my pages were reinstated following a review and publicly visible again.

Upon logging back in, it said Restrictions to my account (Restrictions to manage admin groups, pages, and events) from May had expired June 04. I still have not received any evidence or reason as to why my account was suspended in the first place.

To those of you in a similar situation, Hold onto hope this will be resolved for you.

VRBO recently made a terrible change to listing calendars where they removed the sidebar that shows bookings and blocks information/links, and replaced it with the pricing and availability window that you could have opened from a button at any time. The Calendar information doesn't have a button, and therefore just no longer exists in the calendar. A terrible regression to the calendar functionality, As is frustratingly common with updates on booking platforms lately.

If you hate this as much as I do, You can add `/rail/bookingsAndBlocks` to the end of your calendar URL to make it load the old calendar with only way to open multiple reservations in different tabs at the same time (Otherwise you need to reload the calendar page for every reservation one-by-one)

Your Calendar url like :
https://www.vrbo.com/p/calendar/xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx
will turn into :
https://www.vrbo.com/p/calendar/xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx/rail/bookingsAndBlocks

Note : You need to hover your mouse over the calendar reservation and wait for it to load, and the side bar will turn from an arrow symbol ">" which if you right click and open in a new tab will give you a "This page cannot be found" error, into a Box with Arrow symbol for an external link, Which you can right click on and open in a new tab and it will load properly.