Incident #415·Misinformation

Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony

July 28, 20205 reportsView on AIID

Description

Facebook's Thai-English translation gave an inappropriate mistranslation on Thai PBS's Facebook live broadcast of the King of Thailand’s candle-lighting birthday ceremony.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

facebook

Alleged Developers

facebook

Harmed Parties

live-stream-ceremony-viewers
king-maha-vajiralongkorn

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIUnintentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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Source Reports(5 total)

Lost in translation: Facebook’s royal translation error

tankytech.net· Apr 2021

FB told to apologise for 'mistranslation'

bangkokpost.com· Jul 2020