YANGON: Facebook Inc on Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused.
It was not clear how long the issue lasted but Google’s translation function did not show the same error. The Facebook system did not have President Xi Jinping's name in its Burmese database and guessed at the translation, the company said. Translation tests of similar words that start with"xi" and"shi" in Burmese also produced"shithole", it added.Facebook is blocked in mainland China. But it is not blocked in Hong Kong and mainland companies advertise elsewhere on the platform, making China Facebook’s biggest country for revenue after the United States.
It’s ok. Chinese government can’t condemn things that do not exist.
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