Instagram apologises for adding ‘terrorist’ to some Palestinian user profiles

Parent company Meta says bug caused inappropriate' auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed a lot of people over the edge'

Meta has apologised after inserting the word terrorist" into the profile bios of some Palestinian Instagram users, in what the company says was a bug in auto-translation.

The issue, which was first reported by 404media, affected users with the word Palestinian" written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word alhamdulillah" written in Arabic. When auto-translated to English the phrase read: Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."