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Facebook says it froze user named Isis by mistake

November 18, 2015 admin action-the-user, airliner-over, being-spelt, extent, islamic-state, log-in-page, melissa-fares, pennsylvania, personal, spelt-the-same, the-acronym, user, york

By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group. Anchalee, a software developer in San Francisco, on Monday posted a screenshot of a Facebook log-in page that showed a message “Account disabled”