Bitche in the Moselle is situated in the northeastern part of France. A French town called Bitche had a page on Facebook which was removed. | Photo Credit: Representative Image
Paris: A historic town situated in north-eastern France caught everyone s attention for demanding an apology from the popular social media platform, Facebook. Hilariously its name is Bitche.
Called Bitche in the Moselle, the town s official page was removed by the platform deeming it to be inappropriate and insulting. Obviously, the reason behind it was the name that was misconstrued as the popular swear word.
There was no explanation made by Facebook, much to the town residents being angry and baffled about why did it take place. It disappeared on March 19.
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In an unusual turn of events, the Facebook page for Bitche, a small town in northeastern Moselle, France, was taken down on March 19, as Zuck’s offensive verbiage police pulled the town’s name into the social platform’s unusually stringent dragnet. Featured Video Hide
According to Politico.eu, the Monday takedown temporarily forced Valérie Degouy, the town’s communications administrator, to generate a new page labeled after the area postal code, Mairie 57230.