Ask HN: Meta can't recover account if it was faceless

Recently my Instagram account with around 21k followers was hacked and the details were changed.

I received the email and reported this as not being me. Meta asked for a video of myself to verify me but my account has been faceless so to no avail it didn't pass review. I've put in over 6 years into the account and I'm not sure how to recover it.

Meta needs to do a better job of flagging such changes to an account, it's really easy to flag the account has been hijacked tbh.

Are there any meta employees which could possibly help? My contact information is in my bio.

The account in question was @qtr.republic and it's been renamed to @mortosx_lrmlbp2f.