Israel arrests Palestinian man over Facebook translation error
A Palestinian man was arrested by Israeli police last week after Facebook mistakenly translated one of his posts that read "good morning" in Arabic into “attack them” in Hebrew.
On Saturday, Israeli police admitted that had recently detained a Palestinian man under suspicion of incitement of violence but released him after they realized their mistake.
According to Israeli news sources, the lettering of the term “good morning to you all” in colloquial Arabic and the phrase for "hurt them" is very similar.
The post that led to the arrest of the Palestinian man was a picture of him smiling and holding a cup of coffee and a cigarette while standing next to a bulldozer at a construction site.
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