Facebook Philippines flag faux-pas leads company to declare country at war
Jun13
Facebook put its proverbial foot in its proverbial mouth yesterday when it displayed a message to users in the Philippines wishing them a ‘Happy Independence Day’. However, rather than being a friendly message of celebration, the company reportedly managed to mix up the colors on the flag, so that red is at the top and blue is at the bottom. In some cases, this might be little more than embarrassing, but unfortunately for Facebook, the Philippines does use the flag Facebook displayed, but only in times of war. @facebook please correct this. PH flag 🇵🇭 must be blue over red.…
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