I sympathise with your problem. It must be tricky when English speakers, as so often, don't agree or give conflicting advice. I don't agree with your other source, and can find very many exact matches for "be begun" on google - more than two million of them. It is a problem for people trying to help to distinguish between what we ourselves typically say and what is permissible or correct in English. Usually, there are many acceptable and "correct" ways of saying almost anything in English. Some of those are ones we prefer, know better, hear more often - and it's natural to steer learners towards those, perhaps. But in my opinion that should not include telling people things are wrong unless they actually are wrong - and I am aware of no grammar or other rule that your sentence breaks ...