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Banned from Facebook – No Explanation, No Recourse [1]

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Date: 2025-07-24

On July 9th, my wife and business partner, Marla Rose, was unceremoniously booted off of Facebook. There was no explanation, other than a short and very vaguely worded "violation of Community Standards," and she has been given no opportunity for recourse except for an equally short and vaguely worded "If you believe this is an error, please submit an appeal for review using the link below (followed by a link)". Early this morning, she received another note saying that her review was unsuccessful and her Facebook page is permanently deleted. As is well-known, Facebook has virtually no customer service department, and after many hours of trying, we have not been able to connect with a single voice and nor even a bot chat, or to get even the tiniest explanation as to why this happened. It is as if she has been "virtually disappeared."



For three decades, Marla has been one of the leading voices in the vegan movement and she has also written extensively about many environmental and social justice issues, including feminism and anti-racism. She has been very active on Facebook for nearly 20 years and has posted stories and many images over tens of thousands of posts. She built up thousands of friends and nearly 10,000 followers on her personal page and has gotten many daily comments and shares on her writing. In short, she creates the kind of posts that facilitate engagement that a platform like Facebook needs.



She is heartbroken and grieving about losing such a huge volume of work as well as her connection with many friends and supporters for whom Facebook was her sole means of reaching. Many people visited her page daily, many eagerly awaited her next post and her page was a very active and dynamic meeting place that generated many thousands of wonderful conversations over the years. Since July 9th, she have been getting lots of messages from friends and fans who are trying to figure out what happened and there are, I am sure, many others who have been unable to contact her at all. One friend, living with cancer and estranged from her family, was heartbroken, thinking that Marla blocked her out of nowhere.



Do you know of any reliable way to reach anyone at Facebook? Have anyone you know had a similar situation and managed to get a positive resolution? Their director of communications is Andy Stone and there have been a few dozen people who have attempted to contact him on Marla's behalf, but we have little hope of a response. Might you know anyone who knows him? She and we have absolutely no idea what she might have posted that might have violated their standards, and absolutely no explanation has been given to her. Marla and I would deeply appreciate any help we can get.

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