The sex worker real name reveal has to be bullshit.
I'm quite convinced that Meta actually does have the real name of most of us as well as the ability to link it to other accounts. But the idea that Meta would willingly reveal this without the user's consent means a planet-scale doxxing event. It could lead to actual deaths in the real world, and they would be legally crushed.
What is far more likely to have happened is that the user had an Instagram account with their real name and used that to log in/sign up to Threads. There is no stand-alone account on Threads currently.
My guess is that she was breaking Facebook's real name policy by using a fake name on her main profile. It seems plausible that Facebook would update someone's main profile to their real name.
They usually just suspend the account silently instead of updating your profile in the claimed way.
Meta is not known for being a good citizen, but unlike sending fake notifications or tracking which helps them achieve a business goal, updating user profiles without consent achieves nothing of that sort.
I'm quite convinced that Meta actually does have the real name of most of us as well as the ability to link it to other accounts. But the idea that Meta would willingly reveal this without the user's consent means a planet-scale doxxing event. It could lead to actual deaths in the real world, and they would be legally crushed.
What is far more likely to have happened is that the user had an Instagram account with their real name and used that to log in/sign up to Threads. There is no stand-alone account on Threads currently.