Facebook apologises after vulgar translation of Chinese leader's name

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YANGON (REUTERS) - Facebook said on Saturday (Jan 18) it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name appeared as 'Mr S***hole' in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem had been fixed.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

YANGON - Facebook said on Saturday it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name appeared as"Mr S***hole" in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem had been fixed.

It was not clear how long the issue had lasted but Google's translation function did not show the same error. China is Facebook's biggest country for revenue after the United States, and the tech company is setting up a new engineering team to focus specifically on the lucrative advertising business there, Reuters reported last week.

 

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