Update: someone from FB got in touch and they want to try to regain control of the Douglas Rushkoff page. Why they can't just do that easily and instantly is interesting to me, and a topic for a later post. I can understand them being unable to restore a personal account that has been hacked, but I thought they could just "shut down" a page the same way we can yank something off the DNS servers. But maybe it's easier for them to remove a single post than a whole page.

I'm grateful someone from FB heard about my issue, but I'm wondering if people without 85k Medium followers get as easily noticed. This article was like shooting up a flair. I'm thinking FB should dedicate a couple of million a year to employees that do nothing but security and account restoration. Or maybe offer a paid account that includes some extra server space and account restoration privileges. (Archive of previous instances of the page, so you could time machine back to the pre-hacked version of the page.) $5/month or something.

Then again, the company is focused on Meta now, so maybe they will let the FB social network deteriorate like an old MySpace. Keep Instagram as its version of TikTok and move on.