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I see people on Facebook all the time with multiple accounts - usually, so they can post on political issues without using their own names. For example, I just got some useless "you're stupid and I'm not going to offer any evidence to support that" response from a guy named Chris Jones who has at least 3 troll accounts under the name Sirhc Senoj (Chris Jones spelled backward - creativity is not his forte). I have seen some with way more accounts than that.
At the same time, a police officer contacted me recently about a guy named Timothy Moss, posting under the name Timothy Mohammed, where he takes pictures of local police officers, including one killed in the line of duty, and posts these garbled gibberish rants about them being his husband, gay sex, etc. They complained to Facebook and Facebook denied the complaint - sure enough, they denied multiple complaints by me, based on rule violations like using a fake name, hate speech (racist, homophobic, etc.), personal attacks and harassment, etc.
So a while back I started up a second account and didn't post anything under it I don't normally post under my own name, but a couple of days later Facebook deleted it and told me it didn't comply with community standards, but no specific rule I had broken. I tried a couple of more times, each time with a different email, and they shut them down before I could even complete registration and sign on.
How do people start multiple accounts and get away with it and what am I doing wrong?
At the same time, a police officer contacted me recently about a guy named Timothy Moss, posting under the name Timothy Mohammed, where he takes pictures of local police officers, including one killed in the line of duty, and posts these garbled gibberish rants about them being his husband, gay sex, etc. They complained to Facebook and Facebook denied the complaint - sure enough, they denied multiple complaints by me, based on rule violations like using a fake name, hate speech (racist, homophobic, etc.), personal attacks and harassment, etc.
So a while back I started up a second account and didn't post anything under it I don't normally post under my own name, but a couple of days later Facebook deleted it and told me it didn't comply with community standards, but no specific rule I had broken. I tried a couple of more times, each time with a different email, and they shut them down before I could even complete registration and sign on.
How do people start multiple accounts and get away with it and what am I doing wrong?