Some Facebook users, whose accounts were blocked by the social media authorities during their drive against fake accounts, are getting their accounts back.

Mohammad Badal, an online journalist, Sunday night found his account active. His account had been deactivated since early Saturday.

“On March 3, Facebook sent an authentication code to my phone, but I ignored it. And that's why it might have blocked my account,” he said.

“Sunday evening, Facebook again sent me a verification code and I used it. After a few hours, the authorities reopened my account,” he added.

The social media giant started blocking accounts from Friday saying, "accounts made up inauthentic likes and comments that appear to come from accounts located in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and a number of other countries."

Following that, many Facebook users in the country found their accounts blocked.

A university student named Shahrier Ahmed used to maintain two accounts. Yesterday morning, he found one of his accounts active.

Mustafa Jabbar, president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, said he welcomes the Facebook's initiative to block fake accounts.

Jabbar said the country would be able to assess the actual market size of Facebook through the process. 

The government has also appreciated the drive against fake accounts.

Nobody could specify how many accounts were blocked. But unauthenticated sources said the number might be around one million from Bangladesh.

There are 2.6 crore Facebook accounts operating from Bangladesh, according to a report of “Digital in 2017 Global Overview” run by We Are Social and Hootsuite.