At the end of 2021, Facebook announced the requirement to enable two-factor authentication for certain accounts. With this security measure Facebook Protection programThe social network claimed to want to protect “human rights defenders, journalists or government officials” against possible piracy.
“Facebook Protect helps these groups of people adopt stronger account security protections like two-factor authentication and monitor potential hacking threats”He details Mark Zuckerberg’s social network on his website and regrets that two-factor authentication has been largely underused by Internet users.
Facebook Protect program is full of bugs
At the beginning of March 2022, Facebook finally reached the most vulnerable users and asked them to:Activate Facebook Protect before Thursday, March 17. “Your account requires enhanced security from Facebook Protect”explained Facebook in an email.
Unfortunately, many users affected by the program did not heed Facebook’s email. De facto, the social network decidedenforce two-factor authentication. The platform has blocked user accounts. To recover access to their Facebook account, the people concerned must activate Facebook Protect by force.
Not surprisingly, the social network details the activation process with a warning message appearing on the screen when trying to connect. Unfortunately, this process turned out to be full of bugs. According to references on the web, Codes sent by SMS or email never reach their destinationwhich makes it impossible to enable dual authentication.
Other users claim that enabling Facebook Protect does not unblock their accounts. “Your new Facebook Protect, which I don’t want, keeps sending me the same two factor verification code and it still works. Now I’m locked out of my account”, testifies to a user on Twitter. For the time being, Facebook has yet to react to Internet users’ complaints.
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