r/MetaLawsuits

Hi, I used to run Morbid Kuriosity since day one, for the past five years, until it was taken down due to false IP claims by a scammer last week as a part of an extortion attempt against me. Morbid Kuriosity, an Instagram account focused on strange history, dark stories, mysteries, and unexplained incidents, was recently suspended after what appears to be a coordinated abuse of Meta’s copyright reporting system. The issue began when Instagram removed one of the account’s Reels for alleged copyright infringement. Instagram removed a reel, and the copyright notice listed the rights owner as “Film Thusiast,” using the email address filmthusiast@privacy.eprivo.com. At first, this looked like a normal copyright complaint, but things quickly became suspicious.

After the removal, the real verified filmthusiast Instagram account was contacted directly. They confirmed that they had not filed any copyright report against Morbid Kuriosity or any other account. They also confirmed that the email connected to the report was not theirs and stated that screenshots of the conversation could be shared with Meta Support. This immediately raised serious concerns that someone had used Filmthusiast’s name without authorization to file a false copyright report.

Soon after, a sender using the name “Stickmrdi” contacted Morbid Kuriosity and demanded $100 USD to “settle” the strike. The sender claimed that once payment was made, the strike would be retracted. In a later email, they provided a BNB Smart Chain cryptocurrency wallet and instructed that payment be sent through crypto. The situation became even more serious when the sender began threatening additional copyright claims and a permanent ban if payment was not made. One of the messages stated: “Whether you believe I own the content or not, the strikes are already on your account and they will hold. Further delays will just lead to more claims and a permanent ban.”

Shortly after that threat, a second copyright report was filed against another Morbid Kuriosity Reel. The second report again listed Filmthusiast as the rights owner, but this time used a different email address: filmthusiaat5@privacy.eprivo.com. That email appeared even more suspicious because it looked like a misspelled variation of the Filmthusiast name, with an extra letter and a number added.

After the second report, Morbid Kuriosity was suspended for intellectual property reasons. The sequence of events is what makes the case disturbing: first, a copyright report was filed using the name of a rights holder who later denied filing it; then a sender demanded cryptocurrency to remove the strike; then the sender threatened more claims and a permanent ban; then another copyright report appeared using another suspicious Filmthusiast-like email; and finally, the entire account was suspended.

Both removed Reels were created, edited, captioned, formatted, and published by Morbid Kuriosity. The account did not copy or repost Filmthusiast’s content. The real verified Filmthusiast account denied filing the reports. The payment demand, crypto wallet request, fake-looking email addresses, and threats of further strikes all point toward a possible impersonation and extortion attempt using Meta’s copyright system as leverage.

The matter has been appealed through Instagram and Meta. The appeal includes the report numbers, removed Reel links, screenshots of the verified Filmthusiast confirmation, the suspicious claimant emails, the payment demand, the cryptocurrency wallet request, and the threat to file additional claims.

At this stage, Morbid Kuriosity is trying to get Meta to review whether the reports were filed by someone falsely claiming to represent Filmthusiast and whether the account suspension resulted from fraudulent or abusive copyright complaints. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you.

I was disabled twice for CSE. I had 3 accounts suspended all without notice and the first appeal they gave the account back shortly after accounts where disabled again

I sent 2 demand letters , extensive Meta support chats , I continue to even had meta verified for other accounts even logged in with same phone number and IP from previous banned account

My STATE Attorney General took my case and with a second reach out , meta responded to them and they have reinstated all my accounts after 4 months !!!!

Don’t give up , if you didn’t do anything wrong meta will most likely give them back !

Best wishes to all! I know
How difficult it it’s to be without an account

Yes, you can sue Meta with small claims outside the United States. I'm from South America but you need a valid US address and phone number for the paperwork/e-filing services, a credit card enabled for international purchases and a little bit of patience filling the SC-100 Small Claims form.

A quick recap of my situation: 14 years old Facebook account permanently disabled back in june of 2025 due a CSE accusation without any proof. Tried to contact Meta support with the traditional methods. No reply.

March of 2026: I went through the small claims method: filled the form, send it to the Court of the County of San Mateo - California, they accepted it and got a hearing date set to june of 2026, then I sent the approved form to Meta registered agents.

Early-april: I received a email from Meta Small Claims team asking about my disabled profile info (phone numbers, emails, profile URLs) so they can investigate.

Mid-april: My Facebook and Instagram accounts suddenly were restored without any notice.

Late-april: I received another Meta email confirming my case was a false positive so they restored my accounts, and of course offering me to dismiss the demand. Just in case I waited a few days before proceeding to the dismissal.

It really sucks the only way to contact any Meta human support, aside Meta Verified, is literally suing them. And now is worse because they're replacing everything with AI, for f- sake. Oh well, I recovered my Facebook account 10 months later, bruh...

I'll keep you updated if anything else happens, and feel free to leave any questions here.

Hi this is urgent few famous influncer pages have gone down n I need to talk to meta employees to help them dm (only employees i will be talking on linkdin official ac only )

Those of you who have taken Meta to small claims court… what are your thoughts on a judge vs jury trial? I know jury takes longer but seems they’d be more empathetic to a case that affects the general public and thousands of users, no?

My Instagram and Facebook were permanently banned in November of 2025 for CSE. I tried everything to get it back. All the forms, all the emails, Meta Verified. I chatted with Meta agents through Meta Verified on the phone, nothing worked.

I finally filed a small claim at my local courthouse on April 13th, 2026. My certificated letters were received by Meta and Indiana’s Meta representative a few days later. On May 4th, I received an email from the team that handles Meta’s small claims asking for information. I sent it that same day, and had not heard anything back. On May 12th, I emailed the same address and asked for an update. Within a few hours all 3 of my banned accounts were recovered.

Unfortunately, I think the only way to get through to them is through a small claim. I tried waiting, as this happened to a few other people I knew, but in the end this is the only thing that worked for me.

Feel free to ask me any questions!

This was my last resort, but the constant suspensions and reinstatements are getting way too much for me. I'm also starting to doubt my demand letters are even working. I filed a small claim yesterday and my court date should be before Juneteenth. Is there anything that I need and let me know what you guys did if you have won before. Anything helps please. Pray for me.

Has anyone get banned again after account recovery through a lawsuit?

I’m looking for advice from anyone who has dealt with Meta payout/account recovery issues or small claims court against Meta.

In February 2026, my Facebook Page was compromised. I was eventually able to regain operational access to the Page itself, but during the hack I lost access to the associated payout account and financial administrator permissions tied to monetization.

Meta has repeatedly acknowledged that I am not listed as the financial admin anymore, but the issue is that the unauthorized person added during the compromise appears to control those permissions. Support keeps directing me to complete recovery forms and processes that REQUIRE financial admin access — which is the exact access that was taken during the hack.

I’ve provided Meta with:

• screenshots of unauthorized admins being added,
• Page Management History logs,
• payout notifications,
• remittance statements tied to my identity/address,
• proof of prior earnings,
• and extensive support communications.

At this point I’ve been stuck in circles with support for months. I formally mailed demand letters (with exhibits/evidence attached) to multiple Meta addresses and emailed Meta Payments Support as well. USPS tracking now shows the letters were officially delivered and received today.

I’m currently considering next steps including Attorney General complaints, BBB complaints, and potentially small claims court if the issue remains unresolved.

Has anyone dealt with something similar or had success getting Meta to escalate payout/admin access issues or have any advice? Thank you so much!

I’ve had my Instagram account running for my web service business for an entire year, and was disabled 2 months ago for no clear reason. This account is my business account that pays my bills, puts food on my table for my family, and pays my employees.

After clearly violating my well being, and my family + employee’s families, with zero customer support to help me after 2 months of reaching out, I decided that it’s time to hit them where it hurts. I decided to file a claim for the entirety of my ad spend, which was paid to grow my page (which is now gone).

This is without a doubt unfair business practices, and I will be fighting for either the entirety of the money spent on the account with them, or for the account itself + damages.

It should 100% be illegal to allow ai disable social media accounts, which in 2026, is akin to burning down a business owner’s restaurant… there is literally no difference.

I encourage every business owner affected to call up their bank, and file a claim for every single last dollar spent with Meta ads on their business pages as the product is unsatisfactory, deceptive business practices which is a legal and valid reason for claims.

I’m living in GA, can anyone guide me how to file a small suit against Meta. I have all proof of suspicious unauthorized access.
But got warning from Meta about “abuse” of Meta support because they tell me i filed too many support chat. Please help

Meta restricted our 69k Facebook page for “fraud/scam” despite showing “NO violations” — 20 days later and we’re drowning. Has anyone recovered from this?

I genuinely don’t know what else to do at this point and I’m hoping someone here has been through something similar or knows how to escalate this further.

We run an Australian snack business called SnackEzy. We’ve been operating for over 7 years, have around 69,000 followers on our verified Facebook page, and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Meta ads over the years.

About 20 days ago our page was suddenly restricted/suspended for alleged “fraud/scam” violations.

Here’s the problem:

• We are NOT a scam business
• We do not sell fake products
• We have never engaged in fraud/scam behaviour
• We have no history of policy issues
• Our ACCOUNT STATUS literally says “NO VIOLATIONS” while the page is still suspended

That contradiction alone makes me think this is an AI false positive or some sort of automated integrity flag gone wrong.

Since this happened we have:

• contacted Meta support constantly
• escalated through Meta Verified
• submitted appeals
• supplied business information
• been told repeatedly “the internal team is working on it”
• been told multiple times this would be resolved in “24–48 business hours”

It has now been over 20 days.

Meanwhile:

• our revenue has tanked
• customer communication has been severely disrupted
• our advertising has been massively impacted
• and we are genuinely at risk financially because our business relied heavily on our Facebook audience

And to make timing even worse… I leave for the US Sweets & Snacks Expo on Thursday. We’ll have access to incredible content, new product launches, supplier meetings, and everything our audience normally loves following — except right now we effectively have nowhere to post it because our primary page is still restricted.

What makes this worse is the complete lack of transparency. Nobody can tell us:

• WHAT content triggered it
• whether it was automated
• whether a human has actually reviewed it
• or how long this is realistically going to take

The page just says it’s restricted while Account Status says “No violations.”

We do have a backup page, but obviously rebuilding from 69k followers to basically nothing overnight is devastating.

I honestly feel like we are being punished by an AI system with no actual human review.

Has ANYONE here successfully recovered a page from this type of restriction?
Did anything actually help?
Did you eventually get a real person?
Were you able to escalate internally somehow?

At this point I’ll try literally anything.

Thanks everyone.

Hello everyone my account was banned permanently in late January for CSE, I’ve tried sending two demand letters and that came to nothing. Now I’ve decided to use small claims and sue Meta Platforms for $2500. Approximately 5 weeks ago today their registered agent was served, now I’m patiently waiting. How long does this take?

Hello! I’ve seen many success posts where people were able to get their disabled instagram account back through filing a small claims court. My Instagram account was wrongfully disabled for CSE on February 3. This isn’t the first time as my account was suspended back in December 2025, but was reinstated later after I appealed and contacted meta support. I honestly tried everything to try to get my Instagram account back from using Meta support and doing a legal demand letter from LegalShield. I’m out of options and thinking of doing a small claims court as the last option I have. Does anyone know how to do this in Ontario and willing to provide some steps/guide. I very much appreciate it and thank you in advance!!

Hello everyone, I really need honest advice and real experience from people who have gone through something similar.
We are a 5-year-old brand - Europe Based. 2025 has been extremely unstable for us — a lot of ups and downs — but we still managed to close last year with decent results. January and the first half of February were relatively good, but after the Iran–US conflict and overall market instability, our performance dropped dramatically.
We are using a Meta credit line, and April was already a huge struggle. Somehow we managed to cover the payments, but May is looking even worse. At this point, I honestly don’t see how we will realistically be able to pay the Meta balance in full.
Right now, the amount due to Meta in May is around €145,000, plus a new invoice that will still come on top of that.
I would really appreciate hearing from anyone with real experience:
What does Meta usually do if a business cannot pay an outstanding credit line balance?
Do they immediately send the debt to collections or legal?
Has anyone here gone through insolvency or company closure while having unpaid Meta invoices?
Can Meta sue the company or directors personally?
How aggressive are they in practice regarding debt recovery?
Is it possible to negotiate a payment plan or settlement with them?
I’m trying to understand the real legal and practical risks before making decisions. Thank you in advance to anyone willing to share their experience openly.