Facebook killed a guy’s account by mistake and it took a story by The Next Web to bring it back
Aug06
Rejoice, Al Overdrive is back on Facebook. A small victory against the casual use of unreliable algorithms has been achieved, but this case is still a salutary warning to anyone who gets a lot business from being on the social network. Yesterday, I wrote about how Al’s account had been shut down for a second time because Facebook’s real name policy judged his monicker ‘Al Overdrive’ to be false. In reality, that’s his given name, as shown on the identity documents he had to send to Facebook on two occasions. On the second, it didn’t accept them. @brokenbottleboy hi, i've…
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