Facebook banned OAP fitness class after leg oiling mistaken for sexual content

An instructor was showing people how to prepare their muscles for a stretching routine.

Facebook banned an online video fitness class for pensioners after it mistook leg oiling as sexual content.

John Molyneux, who runs the MolyFit training programme for dozens of over-65s around St Albans, Hertfordshire, said he was shocked to be told by the social network that the post “went against community standards on nudity and sexual activity”.