WF-GVK2FW
Facebook Gave Vulgar English Translation of Chinese President's Name
Facebook provided a vulgar Burmese-English translation of the Chinese president's name in posts of an official Burmese politician's Facebook page announcing his visit.
- Date it happened
- 2020-01-18
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Facebook includes a built in translation tool between languages. However, it has faced numerous problems with translation from Burmese in the past.
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