Camus wrote that “hell is other people.” In our case, hell is being caught in a Facebook verification loop.
On regaining access to our Facebook page after several months,1 I published this post on our page to mark the occasion:
That post, in turn, appears to have triggered a verification loop I can’t break out of. That is why I haven’t posted anything since. Or, more specifically, been able to as I’ve certainly tried countless times.
In one of many, many, many conversations with the Meta AI business assistant to resolve the issue, here’s how it described the situation today:
The issue is a technical conflict between your personal profile’s standing and your administrative rights on the Vampire Studies Association Page. While you can post to your personal timeline, your profile is under a permanent feature limit for administrative actions, triggered by an automated security flag in May 2026. This limit forces a high-security identity check whenever you attempt to post as the Page. You are currently stuck in a loop because the identity verification handshake is failing: SMS codes are not being delivered, and because your profile is restricted, the standard recovery menus—like “Identity confirmation” in the Accounts Center—are hidden. Additionally, several standard help links appear as unavailable to you. Effectively, the automated system has reached a final decision on your profile’s administrative access, which has “locked” the Page since you are the only admin with full control. While the Page itself is healthy, your profile-level restriction prevents you from publishing content. Since I cannot manually override a permanent decision, the only functional path to restore your association’s operations is to manage the Page through a secondary admin account that does not share these specific profile-level blocks.
Apparently, my only recourse is creating or adding another admin account. I’ll work on that. For clarity, I was not given any warning, no notices of restriction, nothing. To say I am displeased with Facebook would be a pretty big understatement. What an awful, awful website it has become.
What’s your experience with the site been like? Do you still use Facebook? Do you recommend using other social media platforms or is Facebook too ubiquitous, too essential?
- Anthony Hogg, “Facebook Page Returns!,” News, Vampire Studies Association, May 15, 2026, https://vampirestudies.org/2026/05/15/facebook-page-returns/. ↩︎
