•  liv   ( @liv@beehaw.org ) 
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    69 months ago

    It is way worse than I thought from the title and bot summary. I thought maybe they mistranslated a word like “activist” but no:

    The issue, which was first reported by 404media, affected users with the word “Palestinian” written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word “alhamdulillah” written in Arabic. When auto-translated to English the phrase read: “Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.”

    It was literally just alhamdulillah that got this weird sentence added to it!

    After the first video, Instagram resolved the issue. The auto-translation now reads: “Thank God”. A spokesperson for Meta told Guardian Australia the issue had been fixed earlier this week.