Facebook Impersonation

As I’ve announced over the years, I don’t do Facebook and social media.

Unfortunately, over the past few months, someone continues to impersonate me on Facebook, making posts in my name on other Facebook sites, lifting real images of me from this site and elsewhere. My editor and others have reported matters, but the impersonation continues.

As I understand Facebook policy, because I’m not on Facebook, I’d have to prove I’m me through supplying information to Facebook, such as a driver’s license or passport, in order to protest. I’m reluctant to either set up a Facebook page or provide such personal information, because all that defeats my reasons for not being on social media.

It’s also a form of blackmail.

I am, however, making it known, as best I can, that anyone purporting to be me on Facebook is blatantly impersonating me.

2 thoughts on “Facebook Impersonation”

  1. Tim says:

    Identity theft is serious. I am surprised Facebook are not required by law to formally investigate the matter.

    Asking you to provide ID is odd as many people can have the same name.

    1. Tom says:

      This is the US and this is “Freedom”. Now, more than at any other time, the US is tending toward Tsardom and the UK and EU are tending the other way perhaps to an extreme. May be the reason for your surprise.

      It is difficult to balance extremes; even more so governing a democracy via ‘Rule of Law’, when one deals with personal sovereignty/security and mass needs colored by minority wishes beyond “no harm”. As discussed in these opinions:

      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/extreme-personal-data-privacy-protection/682867/

      https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/02/european-kindness-free-speech/

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