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Facebook Takes Down Official Page for French Town of “Bitche” However, Bitche was not notified of its deletion or given a reason for its disappearance. So, Bitche created a new page. Instead of the word “Bitche,” the town renamed its page after its postal code: Mairie 57230. After the story went viral, Facebook reinstated the original page on April 13 th. Facebook had censored our Bitche City page. We appealed and tried to contact Facebook through various means, including through contact forms and private messages on Facebook France s page. The President General Manager of Facebook France has personally contacted the Mayor to inform him that the City of Bitche page has been published again and to apologize for any inconvenience that may have been caused. ....
Facebook mistakenly took down the official page for a French town called Bitche, after its algorithms dubbed the name as offensive. The official page for Bitche, a town in northeastern France near the border with Germany, was removed on March 19, but has only just been addressed by Facebook. Facebook France said the mistake was made following an incorrect analysis on the part of our systems . It has since apologised for the embarrassing error and restored the page. Earlier this year, Facebook apologised for banning users from mentioning National Trust beauty spot Devil s Dyke near Brighton after branding it ‘hate speech . ....