We were told vs We where told

The correct phrase is 'we were told.' 'Were' is the past tense of the verb 'to be' and is used to indicate an action that happened in the past. 'Where' is a different word that is used to ask about a location or position and is incorrect in this context.

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We were told

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that someone informed us about something in the past.

Examples:

We were told to be there at 9 a.m.
They were told not to enter the building without permission.

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At the end of the 1980s, however, we were told it would be the end of the world. À la fin des années 1980, pourtant, on nous avait dit que ce serait l'apocalypse.
3 days ago ... Pretty much from us eating a candy bar to shooting all our ammo, but for some reason they don't want to believe that we were told to stand ...
Nov 4, 2015 ... We were told free higher education was a dream. Today we march to make it reality. Anabel Bennett. The generation who had EMA cuts and ...
Growing up, we were told many lies. Some were pretty harmless like, Santa Claus brings us presents, the Easter Bunny brings us chocolate and the tooth fairy ...

We where told

This phrase is incorrect in English.

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Jul 28, 2015 ... 4 weeks ago we purchased two Laz boy leather recliners from NFM KCK. We where told it would be 4 weeks for delivery, so I drove 90 mile to ...
The next day we where told that they had a misleading report from her spinal tap, due to inflammation in the spinal fluid, and her risk level was changed to high.
Noah has Hydrocephalus & fitted with a shunt, we where told noah wouldn't live at all, we have just been filmed for DIYSOS big build Jan/Feb 2014.
... only two chambers in her heart as well as having to have a colostomy operation due to blocked bowel. we where told she might live till 13 yrs old by hospital.

Alternatives:

we were told
we have been told
we got told
we had been informed
we received information

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