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Sorry Seems To Be The Easiest Word For Facebook

Richard Bradbury | Jeff Sandhu | Christine Wong

09-Aug-18 12:15

Sorry Seems To Be The Easiest Word For Facebook

Another natural disaster, another Facebook apology. Last year in October, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg apologised for using “Spaces”, a virtual reality product, to show the devastation in Puerto Rico. Recently after the devastating earthquake in Lombok, Indonesia, Facebook issued another apology due to a translation mix-up that showed users animated balloons and confetti automatically appearing in their feed in response to the earthquake.


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