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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 Faceboo...

Updated: Apr 13 2021, 8:23 ET A FRENCH town called Bitche has been cancelled by Facebook – because it sounds like a sexist insult. Now other French places with names including Arse, Anus, Condom, and Pussy also risk being cancelled by the Facebook algorithms.  6 6 The small community on the River Horn is right beside the German borderCredit: Alamy Officials in the small community on the River Horn, on the German border, on Tuesday confirmed that the page "has been censored" since last month. “We’ve appealed but this can take a long while,” said a town hall spokesman in Bitche, which ...

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...

Facebook takes down official page for the French town of Bitche 'The most astonishing thing is that Facebook took so long to correct this.' Apr 13, 2021, 11:45 am* 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 administra...