You can read the whole post below, but the gist of the explanation goes as follows: 
 
 A single user flagged hundreds of Facebook pages of drag queens (BI reports that a Secret user has claimed responsibility for this) for using fake names, and as part of standard operating procedure, Facebook did a sweep of the profiles without realizing the attack pattern against drag queens using drag names on their Facebook profiles. This will include “better tools for authenticating the Sister Romas of the world while not opening up Facebook to bad actors,” along with taking further “measures to provide much more deliberate customer service to those accounts that get flagged so that we can manage these in a less abrupt and more thoughtful way.” 
 
 Thank you @facebook for listening to community.
– Victory for Sister Roma, Lil Miss Hot Mess, and hundreds of other drag queens who had fallen afoul of Facebook's "real name" policy: The company says it will ease up on the policy and they can carry on using their stage names. The drag queens had their accounts suspended and were asked to authenticate their names, which a Facebook exec says happened after a single user reported the Facebook pages of hundreds of drag queens for violating the name policy, TechCrunch reports. "Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name," the exec said in a Facebook post. "The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life." Sister Roma and other gay rights activists had argued that Facebook's insistence on using their real names could lead to harassment, CNET reports. But the Facebook exec who announced that the policy would be eased also said the real-name policy is a "very powerful force for good" when used to combat online bullying and anonymous attacks, and while the policy won't be abandoned, Facebook will take more steps to understand the situation when a user is reported for using a fake name, reports the New York Times. (Invite-only social media site Ello, meanwhile, doesn't require people use their real names and is growing fast.)