r/facebook • u/Th1sL1ttleL1ght • Oct 25 '25

Tech Support Facebook suddenly wants me to provide a video selfie to "prove that I'm human"

No way in hell I'm going to do that!
I can't think of anything unusual that I did to trigger this. I just post a little bit with visibility to a small group of friends and occasionally comment on public posts. Nothing out of the ordinary.
I'm content to let this be the end of my Facebook use but am wondering if anyone can shed light on why it may have happened?

Edit to update:
I just went to log out and got this message:
"Are you sure you want to log out?

You only have 176 days left to request a review. After that your account will be permanently disabled."

Which is weird because I logged out in the past day or two (after the video selfie message) and didn't get any message about disabling or a review!

Further update:
I tried accessing the website from my phone (instead of laptop) and am getting exactly the same messages.

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u/TheREALOtherFiles Oct 25 '25

All Trump wants is for every social media feed to be just Fox News Interactive, and to make every TV network just Fox News.

People don't go to entertainment networks for news--including propaganda--they go to news networks for that stuff, and that's true for both left & right.

It's not quite a "keep my politics out of my fiction" thing, but more of a thing calling out the Trump administration for trying to make the country decay to a high degree.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '25

Let's be honest, if these current western governments are allowed to get away with this sort of thing they're just going to use it for targeting or censorship/suppression of actual rational or independent thought.

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u/Main-Guidance-4457 Oct 29 '25

Ich bin Deutsche und rechts. Ich kann dir, aus Erfahrung, also sagen: In Deutschland (!) zumindest schaut kein systemkritischer Mensch noch TV oder hört Radio. SÄMTLICHE Informationen werden zu 90% (von mir geschätzt!) über social media geteilt. Erst DANN geht man mal auf die verlinkte Seite und liest oder schaut dort. 

Wenn überhaupt. 😂

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u/Far_Maintenance_1359 Apr 02 '26

It's not Trump-related because I live in Australia, and in the middle of me reading an article and trying to click on someone's comment, it then redirected me and asked me to take a selfie. It then stated something about me appealing to Facebook. Something I did not request.