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If there wasn’t enough hate propagating against Muslims intentionally, there is now an instance of ‘unintentional’ racial slur as well.
In a terrible faux pas, Facebook translated the Hindi expletive ‘Mada****d’ into the word ‘Muslim’ apparently because of a bug.
This sparked a livid discussion on social media with people sharing screenshots of posts showing the word written in Hindi and its translation. When Facebook realised the offensive mistake, it immediately corrected it and now if you type the cuss word, it translates to ‘idiot’.
People tried the word in different sentences and it always said ‘Muslim’ when asked for a translation.
The reactions to this echoed how abhorrent the mistake looked especially in an environment where slurs against Muslims are very prevalent.
The culprit was a bug in the system, Facebook said in a statement.
The statement read:
You may want to avoid such appalling mistakes, Facebook.
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