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Life’s a Bitche: French town’s Facebook page shut down over ‘offensive’ name (theguardian.com)
4 points by stevesimmons on April 13, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Automated algorithms censoring the real world, with no effective redress mechanism...

From the linked article:

Valérie Degouy, a spokesperson for Bitche, told local radio: “I appealed on 19 March but [the page] hasn’t reappeared again. I have tried every way to contact Facebook, through the different forms, but there is nothing more to do. I tried to send a private message on the Facebook France page, I left about 10 messages every day. I was finally contacted and told that they were not in charge, that if I appealed, I would have to wait for a response from Facebook.




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