What an interesting day Monday was with an hours-long timeout for all of us from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. I feel like I got so much more done without the distraction of my main social media outlets. This week, we’ll discuss the outage and our reliance on social media as businesses and individuals around the…
After 20 years, the US has withdrawn from Afghanistan and the Taliban has taken back control of the country. Obviously, this is a huge and heavy topic with the ensuing panic and humanitarian crisis in the country. We’ll have an open discussion of what this means for the world and the future of the country…
In today’s session, we discuss some recent occurrences of automatic translation mistakes that caused large problems for global brands we all know.
We take a look at how some major international brands are handling the crisis. Some are handling it well, and some are making some mistakes.
During the last session, we were not able to get to some very interesting topics, including: Facebook Burmese > English Error, a US-South Korean Ambassador’s moustache, Natuna Island Indonesia disputes, 9-Dash Line disagreements, Wikipedia access being restored in Turkey, and a parody Brazilian condom spec ad.