Incident 415: Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony
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Thai PBS has published a case statement. Inappropriate messages appearing on Facebook live broadcast Candle lighting ceremony Confirmed that it was a problem with the text translation system from Facebook itself.
On July 9, the Thai PBS Fac…
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Facebook has admitted to an error in its automatic translation, from English to Thai, and has offered a profound apology to the Thai people.
The mistake appeared on Thai PBS’s Facebook page on July 28th, His Majesty the King’s birthday.
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The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has sent an urgent letter to Facebook in Singapore and Thailand, demanding the social media giant take responsibility over a mistranslated headline from English into Thai about the live broadca…
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Social media giant Facebook found itself under investigation this week by the Crime Technology Division of the Royal Thai Police following an inadvertent blunder during a ceremony for the King’s birthday on Tuesday which led to a message be…
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On 28 July 2020, widely-followed media outlet, Thai PBS, posted a live stream of the candle-lighting ceremony celebrating His Majesty the King’s birthday on its Facebook page.
The caption of the live stream, said:
“[Live] Candle-lighting ce…