An Austrian Twitter user has been banned off of the platform for 12 hours for Tweeting the phrase"die boomer"—which is not a threat in the German language.
On November 9, the user @digiom, who's located in Vienna, Austria, replied to a tweet by user @guenterhack with the words"die boomer." "Die boomer" in German merely means"the boomer." But the speech filters that Twitter employs to help in its fight against user harassment and abuse picked up the English meaning of the word and temporarily banned @digiom's account for violating the platform's hate speech guidelines, locking the account.
"Because the German article 'die' is read as [the verb] 'die' by an English-trained algorithm, it can happen that twitter will block someone if they write 'die Boomer,'" @digiom explained in a follow-up tweet when the account was restored, providing a screenshot of the warning email. A Twitter user found themselves temporarily banned from the website after Tweeting the phrase 'die boomer' -"the boomer" in German, and a phrase that the platform's word filters mistook for an English language threat."OK, Boomer" has become a popular meme over the past few months. Intended as a dismissive response by millennials and gen-Z users against the what they perceive to be closed-minded, bigoted or condescending behavior from the baby boomer generation.
But a"boomer" does not necessarily need to have been born within the named era—they simply must display the attitude described above. The term gained further popularity when New Zealand politician Chloe Swarbrick
Das ist nicht gut.
MISUNSHINE01 and yet the president is allowed to call us human scum
Should be “der Boomer” for all genders. “Die Boomer” means “the (female) boomer.”
SideshowBob 😜
Was Newsweek an actual journalistic organization at one point? The name implies so.
Austrians aren’t Germans. They’re Austrians.
Very wrong. All languages must be allowed on Twitter
seriously thou do it
It may not be a threat, but is it ok, Boomers?
It seems slightly implausible to use the feminine “die” instead of the masculine “der” when replying to a male twitter account. Or is my German grammar wrong?
Even in the Afrikaans language in South Africa the word 'the' is translated to 'die'. As in: 'The moon is big' = 'Die maan is groot'
It's like the time Pres.John Kennedy said that he was a jelly doughnut in German.
kuku27 Algorithms need correction
Stupid, isn’t it? One among many consequences of letting context- and language-impaired bots do the screening.
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