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22 Apr 2021 Facebook has been left red-faced after mistakenly removing the official page for the French town of Bitche. According to BBC News, the platform confused the town with a similarly-spelt English swear word. In a post to the Ville de Bitche’s Facebook page, which has since been restored, the town’s mayor, Nenoît Kieffer, said he was informed that the page had been taken down on 19 March “in violation of conditions applying to Facebook pages”. “The name of our town seemed to suffer from a bad interpretation,” he said. ...

A town in France has had its official Facebook page removed because of its name. Ville de Bitche’s Facebook page was removed because of the name’s proximity to an English insult. The social media site has said that removal was an “error”. Mayor of the French town, Benoit Kieffer said officials received a message saying it was “in violation of conditions applying to Facebook pages.”. According to Mayor Kieffer told “At first, you wonder, was there a technical problem? However, with the length of time, it can be considered a real censorship,” The page has since been restored...

Bitche is back as Facebook reinstates French town’s ‘offensive’ home page French town of Bitche wins bid to reclaim its name after Facebook algorithm mistook it for the English insult 13 April 2021 • 1:12pm Fortress Bitche. The citadel with impregnable bastions is located on a high mountain in Alsace Credit:  Alexander Sorokopud/Moment Unreleased RF Facebook France has apologised to the eastern French town of Bitche after the social network’s algorithm wiped its municipal page, mistaking it for an English-language insult. Bitche, population 5,205, is a picturesque citadel inside th...