AN OPEN LETTER TO META  - 5th October 2026

 Subject: Request for Human Review -  False Positive Disabled Account (14 years)
Dear Meta Human Review Team,
 
 
Please can you help? Your automated safety system has disabled my Facebook account of 14 years:
https://www.facebook.com/davidpearce
ID: 10160047019423105
And linked Instagram and public figure Page:
100063561401720
 
 
I am a British philosopher who has written extensively on the problem of wild animal suffering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal_suffering
 
 
What happened:
On Instagram, I was repeatedly served gruesome wildlife videos of free-living animals being asphyxiated, disembowelled and eaten alive (examples:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DInA8qMvBcj/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Db6Ee8nx4jo/ etc)
 
 
As an animal advocate, I protested in comments. I described them as "sick snuff videos", "victims are as sentient as small children" (etc), and said the victims are sentient beings whose suffering matters.
Your algorithm interpreted my replies as engagement and served more of the same. I responded again, strongly condemning the cruelty.
If I repeat the language of my replies, the keywords will again presumably trigger your automated system ageist animal cruelty and/or child abuse.
 
 
Why this is a false positive:
My language was condemning animal cruelty, not supporting it.
Under your own Community Standards, "Violence and Incitement: Harm against Animals" you explicitly state that "Awareness-raising or condemnation" of animal harm is allowed.
My comments fall squarely under that allowed exception. The filter appears to have misclassified condemnation as endorsement.
Everything I posted on Facebook and Instagram for 14 years vanished overnight. No warning. Case 1077459651401032 was closed without human review.
Request:
If there are sentient beings at Meta who can help, can you please:
Escalate this to Tier 2 Human Policy Review
Apply the "condemnation exception" and restore my account.
I am a lifelong veggie/vegan who has spent my life advocating _against_ suffering in human and nonhuman animals alike.
 
Thank you for reading.
David Pearce
dave@hedweb.com
https://www.hedweb.com
+44 (0)7525 021985
Brighton , UK.