Facebook blunders with balloons after earthquake

san francisco - Facebook regrets that users who posted messages about the earthquake on Lombok, sometimes saw balloons and confetti appear on their screens. This is due to a translation error, message Motherboard.

Indonesian Facebook users who wrote about the tragedy often used the word 'selamat. 'That word has several meanings and can be translated into' unharmed 'depending on the context, but also' congratulations. 'Facebook's algorithm saw messages about the natural disaster as a result of congratulations, which caused cheerful animations to appear on the screen.

Facebook let the technology site know the situation to regret and the balloon function to have restrained. 'We have now disabled the feature locally,' said a spokeswoman. 'We live with the people affected by the earthquake. '