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Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations

www.404media.co Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations

The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

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This shouldn’t have even been a thing
Is this a consequence of their AI translation learning from context?
- It's like the Nazi using a Buddhist symbol and now it's cursed in Western view
I mean, are Hamas Palestinian? Yes. Are they terrorists? Yes. What is the problem here?
- Calling non-terrorists, terrorists is the problem.
  
  Just a small percentage of Palestinians are affiliated with Hamas and especially their attacks.
  
  OK, let's deconstruct the sentence in the post further. Who are fighting right now? Hamas or civilians? Freedom from what? Israel doesn't rule in Gaza.
- Can i call all north americans terrorists, since the KKK is a terrorist organization with several local supporters ? Are the KKK north americans ? Yes (dunno if they accept canadians or other whites though, but probably almost all are USA, hamas probably has non palestinians too). Are they terrorists ? Yes.

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