Facebook charity page restored after ban mix-up

Richard_Scope

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Steve Beech and Dan Hunt, BBC Derby. Full Article

The founder of a charity that supports teenagers with cerebral palsy has spoken about the "nightmare" of being unable to use its Facebook page for more than a year after it was flagged as having inappropriate content.

CP Teens UK, based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, was set up by former para-athlete Ellie Simpson, who lives with the condition that affects movement and co-ordination.

She believes the social media giant's algorithms mistakenly took the abbreviation CP - commonly used to represent cerebral palsy - to stand for "child ****", leading to the page being blocked.

On Wednesday, the charity said Meta had restored access and renamed the page to Cerebral Palsy Teens UK.

It said it would continue to use the Cerebral Palsy Teens UK name on Facebook and Instagram "to avoid any confusion with unrelated or inappropriate content linked to our abbreviation", but use its official name everywhere else.

Meta has been contacted by the BBC for comment.

SaraC_Scope

This should never have happened, but I'm so happy Ellie had the support of her community to rectify this wrong. Cerebral Palsy Teens has been a lifeline for so many young people.

durhamjaide2001

this definitely shouldn't of happened to her it isn't fair on us in the disabled community.

forgoodnesssake

Yes I was searching for CP Scotland and was not able to and got message from Meta saying it looked as if i was searching for something illegal…and that was only a couple of weeks ago.