First they erroneously deleted his account thinking it was a fraud, then they said they’d reinstate it if he sent his passport, then Facebook reinstated his account with the first name that appears on his passport, which is Ahmed. Ahmed Rushdie. Nice work, Facebook!

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

7 replies on “Salman Rushdie’s Horrible Day Today on Facebook”

  1. In the future, only two kinds of people will have any power in this world: high-school dropouts working for TSA, and emotionally-crippled tech drones at Facebook. No one in either group will have ever read a book.

  2. A man who endured probably the most high profile fatwā is the last 20 years sent a picture of his passport to some dudes he knows from Facebook?

  3. Such is old news:

    The very article that you linked us to (now) makes it very clear that Facebook had apologized and re-instated his account under the right name within hours. I know we all love hating on Facebook, but a mistake is a mistake; and fixing one quickly and courteously shouldn’t earn you scorn.

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