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Facebook pulled the page for Bitche, France because it was not Nice
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A city in France has had a real rollercoaster of a week, after its Facebook page was accidentally deleted for violating the terms and conditions of the site. Of course, the city of Bitche, France (in the Moselle department in northeastern France) hadn’t done anything in particular to violate any of Facebook’s rules it just sounded a whole lot like it did.
According to a report from
Politico), Bitche’s troubles first began on March 19th, when the city’s official page titled “Ville de Bitche,” which translates to the perfectly normal “City of Bitche” was suddenly removed. Valérie Degouy, the city’s communication manager, attempted to contact Facebook to try to appeal the decision but was unsuccessful, and she eventually just made a new page titled “Mairie 57230,” after Bitche’s postal code.
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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.
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