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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 ...

Island FM Facebook has been criticised after taking down the official page for the French town of Bitche. Local broadcaster Radio Melodie reported that the page was taken down, forcing the municipal communications officer to create a new one under another name. Ms Valerie Degouy said the new page was named after the town's post code, Mairie 57230, as reported by Politico. Ms Degouy said: "I tried to reach out to Facebook in every possible way, through different forms, but there's nothing [I could] do," she said, adding she had "already had issues when I fir...