Looks can be deceiving or in this case, names.
A woman named Isis Anchalee recently called out Facebook for disabling her account after the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Isis was enraged after finding that she cannot anymore log-in to her Facebook account. Anchalee, who is a software engineer in San Francisco, Calif., took to Twitter to express her outrage.
"Why would you disable my personal account?" Isis Anchalee wrote on Twitter, tagging Facebook's official account. "MY REAL NAME IS ISIS ANCHALEE/facepalm."
@dzandman Facebook thinks I'm a terrorist and froze my account
— Isis Anchalee (@isisAnchalee) November 17, 2015
Anchalee said she had confirmed her identity on the social networking site thrice along with a scanned photo of her passport but Facebook's response on the matter wasn't immediate.
In another Tweet, Anchalee told a friend that perhaps Facebook thought she belonged to the extremist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), reason why they shut down her Facebook account. After the third time of proving her identity, Isis’ Facebook account was restored.
Third time sending in my information is the charm I guess. I'm back in :) pic.twitter.com/m0demGZitw — Isis Anchalee (@isisAnchalee) November 17, 2015
Facebook immediately apologized to Isis for the trouble caused.
"Isis, sorry about this. I don't know what happened," Facebook reseacher Omid Farivar tweeted to Anchalee publicly. "I've reported it to the right people and we are working on fixing it."
"It was part of a fake acounting reporting process," a Facebook spokesperson explained to The Guardian. "It was not connected to the individual's name and her account has already been restored."
Isis Anchalee is not alone in terms of mistaken identity on social networking sites.
"Many people with the name Isis -- an Ancient Egyptian goddess of health, marriage and wisdom, have expressed concerns about the use of the acronym ISIS to refer to Islamic State, the group which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks," Yahoo reported.
Meanwhile, an online petition launched to discourage the media from using the name "ISIS" to refer to the terrorist group, Islamic State, which gathered 56,800 signatures, was stopped on Aug. 24.
According to The Guardian, the organizer of the petition Isis Martinez from Miami Florida, said women named Isis were "facing the unnecessary backlash of this irresponsible choice by the media."
"No thanks to media outlets who continue to call those monsters by our name and have been relentless in using it despite the havoc it has caused so many of us, especially the little ones and their parents," said Martinez.
