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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 co...

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, Fa...