For those of you that use Facebook you may have noticed that our Wild Horse Education page was hacked.

Facebook finally recognizes the hack we first reported on August 18. We were able to fend it off ourselves, with no help from Facebook, for a few weeks. Facebook essentially allowed the hack. They say it could take weeks to restore it. In the meantime, the page is rapidly losing followers it took 16 years to build. The damage to our ability to outreach and fundraise is very real. It has also caused our mailers to lose the ability to be shared on Facebook. We are building a “work around” this inconvenience.

This appears to have been a targeted hack with the goal of hurting our ability to inform you of our litigation and other work to protect our wild ones and to fundraise to support our expanding legal front. At no time in history have this many legal actions been launched against the assault on our wild ones.

Creating a new Wild Horse Education page could cause issues with recovering our old page. 

EDITED October 8 to add: Meta said that even though we have proven the page is ours, they will do nothing to return it or mitigate the damage. We have had to create a new page: https://www.facebook.com/WildHorseEducation.org

One of our volunteers had her own website and Facebook page. She has loaned us the page to post on social media until we get our page back. The name of Colette Kaluza’s page is “Wild Horse Site.” We will be a guest there until Facebook returns our property. It could take more than a month. You can access and follow Wild Horse Site HERE.

Your information is safe that was on WHE. WHE never installed the “pixel” that would allow Facebook to track your activity. Many organizations do install it because Facebook gives you priority in the news feed and other perks to help you build a following. Instead, we spent 15 years creating our page organically. So none of your information beyond the fact that you followed, liked or commented on a post was ever tracked on our Facebook page. You were not followed by the pixel when you left our page, we made sure of that even though gaining traffic was harder for us.

If you donated through Facebook to WHE, we set up a block on the PayPal side to never share your info with Facebook. We have always taken your security seriously even if we would have gotten a perk from Facebook to allow tracking.

Our website was never breached. Your info is safe on our end. The hack was targeted to stop us from posting and fundraising on Facebook. 

What we have found out is that Meta AI is extremely vulnerable to hacking. If you have used a Meta chat to report an issue, create a post, or answer a question, we would advise you to change your passwords. If you have a page attached to a Meta Business or other Meta service, check your page to make sure no unauthorized users have breached your page. If you suspect you have interacted with a page on Facebook at has installed the tracking pixel, change your password and be careful of which links you click on until Facebook creates safeguards for the AI they have installed in Meta.

WHE has also started a Patreon page. We are getting used to all of the features Patreon has to offer and like the security and ability to share more intimately with those of you that choose to join one of the subscription tiers. We can have safe live chats and post info in ways we would not have done on Facebook.

We thank you for your patience as we attempt to do damage control and find ways to continue to keep you informed and keep the work moving forward. 

Onward for our wild ones. 

Without your support, none of our work is possible. 

Thank you for keeping WHE running for our wild ones!