Meta says the problem was fixed last week. It's the platform's latest struggle in moderating content around the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Instagram users reported last week that their bios including the word “Palestinian” and the Arabic phrase “Alhamdulillah”, which means “praise be to God”, were auto-translated to say “Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.” “We sincerely apologize that this happened,” said a Meta spokesperson to Gizmodo. “We fixed a problem that briefly caused inappropriate Arabic translations in some of our products.
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said doing so would be “too risky” given the maturity of the platform. “There is no truth to the suggestion that we are deliberately suppressing voice,” said Meta in a blog post Wednesday before the auto-translation incident was reported. “Our teams introduced a series of measures to address the spike in harmful and potentially harmful content spreading on our platforms.
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