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Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest
Facebook's automatic language translation software incorrectly translated an Arabic post saying "Good morning" into Hebrew saying "hurt them," leading to the arrest of a Palestinian man in Beitar Illit, Israel.
- Date it happened
- 2017-10-17
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Facebook translator
Where this came from
- news.ycombinator.com
- haaretz.com
- independent.co.uk
- dailydot.com
- translateplus.com
- forum.facepunch.com
- forward.com
- qz.com
- cdt.org
- finance.yahoo.com
- postcourier.com.pg
- metro.co.uk
- supernewsworld.com
- newsx.com
- alphr.com
- thealternativedaily.com
- tomedes.com
- privacyinternational.org
- dailymail.co.uk
- ibtimes.co.uk
- mashable.com
- swordandscale.com
- gizmodo.com.au
- theverge.com
- digitaltrends.com
- theguardian.com
Attribution
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