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Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony
Facebook's Thai-English translation gave an inappropriate mistranslation on Thai PBS's Facebook live broadcast of the King of Thailand’s candle-lighting birthday ceremony.
- Date it happened
- 2020-07-28
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