
Tried to complain to Facebook but got ignored? We’ll help you escalate it.
Submit a Facebook complaint that gets taken seriously. Ajust helps you lodge a formal complaint that bypasses bots, delays, and dead ends.
How to submit a complaint with Facebook
Facebook doesn’t offer direct phone or email support for user complaints. Here’s how you can officially submit your complaint quickly:
Report via Facebook Help Center:
- Log into Facebook Help Center.
- Go to “Help & Support” > “Report a Problem” or simply shake your mobile phone to trigger the reporting prompt.
- Clearly describe your complaint (e.g., errors, policy violations, account issues), and submit.
Account & Security Issues:
- For disabled accounts, fill out the Disabled Account Appeal form provided in the Help Center.
- For hacked accounts, visit facebook.com/hacked and follow the guided recovery process.
Business Support Channels:
- For Facebook business accounts (Pages, Ads, billing issues), use the Meta Business Help Center.
- Eligible business customers may have access to live chat or email support.
🔖 Tip: Clearly explain your issue with supporting screenshots or direct links. Check your Facebook Support Inbox regularly for responses.
Facebook uses a largely automated process initially, with manual reviews for specific cases:
- Immediate Acknowledgment: Typically an automatic acknowledgment via screen or email confirms your complaint receipt.
- Review & Resolution:
- Content or Policy Issues: Usually reviewed within 24-48 hours. Violating content is removed, and you’re notified in your Support Inbox.
- Account Access Issues: Appeals for hacked or disabled accounts are manually reviewed; resolution can take days to weeks. Verification may be required.
- Technical Issues: Engineers handle bug reports, often fixing them in future updates without personalised responses.
- Content or Policy Issues: Usually reviewed within 24-48 hours. Violating content is removed, and you’re notified in your Support Inbox.
- Updates & Communication: Primarily via automated notifications in your Support Inbox or email. Personalised responses are rare.
- Resolution Timelines: Simple issues typically resolved within a few days. Complex cases like account recoveries may require weeks.
🔖 Friendly Assurance: Many genuine complaints are resolved through Facebook’s system - stay patient, provide clear information, and regularly check your inbox.
Common complaints against Facebook
Facebook users commonly experience these issues:
- Account Access Problems: Unexpected disabling or hacking, difficulties recovering accounts due to automated systems.
- Poor Customer Support Experience: Frustration over generic automated responses, lack of human support, and unanswered appeals.
- Content Moderation Issues: Posts or accounts unfairly removed, or harmful content not properly moderated, causing widespread frustration.
- Spam, Scams & Fake Ads: Users frequently encounter fraudulent ads, scam purchases, spam messages, and fake profiles with insufficient action from Facebook.
- Privacy & Data Concerns: Complaints about mishandled data, intrusive advertising, privacy breaches, and insufficient responses from Facebook.
- Marketplace & Payment Issues: Scams or unresolved disputes on Facebook Marketplace, billing problems with Facebook Pay or subscription services.
- Frequent Technical Glitches: Common usability issues such as features not loading, posts failing, or unexpected technical errors affecting account functionality.
Real complaints submitted through Ajust
How other Facebook complaints got resolved
Disabled Account Restored via Regulator: After months without resolution, a user escalated a hacked and disabled account complaint to a government regulator, prompting Facebook to restore access within weeks.
Account Reactivation via Legal Demand Letter: A formal legal demand letter resulted in Facebook quickly restoring an account that standard appeals had previously failed to reactivate.
Scam Ad Removed; Funds Recovered via Bank: A scam product ad complaint resulted in Facebook removing the ad and banning the advertiser, though the user recovered lost funds via a bank chargeback, not from Facebook directly.
If your complaint remains unresolved, escalate your issue with these clear steps:
- Step 1 – Follow Up Within Facebook: Revisit the Facebook Help Center to resend appeals or requests if no initial response is received within a week.
- Step 2 – Public Channels & Forums: Publicly contacting Facebook via official social media (Twitter, Facebook Page) or forums can sometimes prompt faster responses.
- Step 3 – Oversight Board (Content Complaints): Escalate content-related complaints to Facebook’s independent Oversight Board after exhausting standard appeals.
- Step 4 – External Escalation (Regulatory Bodies):
- Australia’s eSafety Commissioner for serious online abuse or harmful content.
- OAIC for unresolved privacy issues.
- ACCC or Scamwatch for consumer harm, misleading conduct, or scams.
- Australia’s eSafety Commissioner for serious online abuse or harmful content.
🔖 Tip: Keep detailed records of all correspondence and attempts. These documents are valuable during external escalation.
When Facebook’s internal processes fail, these regulatory bodies offer external complaint support:
- eSafety Commissioner (Australia): Handles serious online abuse, cyberbullying, or image-based abuse complaints that Facebook hasn't addressed within 48 hours.
- Report via eSafety.gov.au
- Report via eSafety.gov.au
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC): Investigates privacy violations or data misuse by Facebook after internal complaints have been exhausted.
- Submit privacy complaints via OAIC.gov.au
- Submit privacy complaints via OAIC.gov.au
- ACCC (Australian Competition & Consumer Commission): For misleading or deceptive conduct by Facebook, or reporting scam ads and serious consumer harm.
- State Consumer Affairs/Fair Trading: Useful for transaction-related disputes on Facebook Marketplace, payments, or refunds unresolved by Facebook directly.
🔖 Note: These regulatory avenues provide legal backing and can compel Facebook to respond more thoroughly than internal routes.
Utilise these official Facebook resources to effectively lodge and manage your complaint:
- Facebook Help Center – Central hub for complaint submission and support guides.
- Report a Problem – Directly submit technical issues or general complaints.
- Disabled Account Appeal Form – Request account reactivation if disabled.
- Hacked Account Recovery – Guided account recovery for hacked accounts.
- Meta Business Help Center – Support specifically for business-related issues.
- Facebook Oversight Board – Independent appeals body for content moderation disputes.
- Facebook Community Standards – Essential reference for content rules.
- Facebook Terms & Policies – Official documentation of Facebook policies.
🔖 Advice: Always verify URLs to ensure authenticity when providing personal information.
Facebook Complaints FAQs
You’ve done your part, now it’s time to hold Facebook accountable.
Take the final step and submit a complaint that gets seen and responded to.