The Inquisitr - Tech

For a couple of days prior to the new year, the “translate tweet” button failed to appear on some Hebrew-language tweets, including those by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli government officials. This led to a conspiracy theory, spread by journalist Laura Loomer and others, that Twitter had done so for anti-Semitic reasons, in order to undermine the State of Israel.

The translation function appeared mostly restored within a couple of days, and it turns out the translation problem was, in fact, a software bug, and not a political decision on the part of Twitter’s leadership.

“Thx for reporting.” Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter’s product lead, said in a tweet, in response to a user who had complained. “This is a bug that was introduced when we switched translation providers in mid December. Impacts some tweets in Hebrew and some other languages (such as Chinese) only on iOS. Working on

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