That’s not the question here.

The 2 problems here are

that F*book scrapes this user’s personal data from other random places (very illegal)

and that they change the FB profile without asking the user specifically (should be illegal, but maybe they find an excuse in their terms & conditions)

Being forced to read generated content?

Nobody deserves that. Not even criminals.

We should write it down into the list of basic human rights: the RIGHT to freely decide if i want to read/hear/view any generated content.

You should be proud of that

Even commercial ‘social’ media need anonymity.

Sorry for the downtime and we will try to communicate the problem better in the future.

You did the right thing, going down immediately.

The solution for the announcement problem is to do it “out of band”, as the communications engineers call it. That is: use a different medium. May be a webpage or even twitter or whatever. Ideally let everybody know your method in advance (make an announcement policy :-)) so the users know where to look for the info.

Cowards.