[tgtweak]

I've ran into this even in my limited advertising on meta - they actaully want you to use the actual individual's facebook account to manage the ads accounts, even on behalf of the clients through the agency.

This is kind of insane behavior but when you remember that google actually supports enterprise domains and SSO and facebook has very little of that - or relatively little - it makes sense. If you are personally banned from facebook for whatever reason, you cannot have a business account under another email - once you validate your identity it regurgitates the ban.

Despite this being an obvious antipattern to security it is very much by design for meta.

[smelendez]

Yeah, Meta wants you to have a single Facebook account under your legal name that you use for all your personal and professional contact with them. Never mind if you’re freelancing for three companies that don’t want to be linked to each other and running the page for your church and your karate studio.

So of course people try to set up multiple accounts, but anyone over a certain age setting up a new account is naturally flagged as suspicious. The solution is just to allow a type of accounts that only manage business pages, but that would probably mess up their stats.

[cube00]

I ran into the same thing, I deleted my Facebook account years ago, needed a business account to run ads, signed up and instantly banned when I wasn't even banned when was originally a Facebook user, guess it's punishment for my desertion.

[tatersolid]

This same scenario happened to me as well, and my “appeal” was instantly automatically denied.

[alex1138]

If platforms didn't hand out bans like candy (probably USING said AI!) this MIGHT make a bare modicum of sense