Posted on 05/15/2015 2:51:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg carelessly waded into a political conflict of words between Pakistanis and Indians when he posted an infographic on the site featuring a map of India, excluding the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Inevitably, the post–which was shared to celebrate the “countries connected” by his internet.org project– sparked outrage among the Facebook community and led to Zuckerberg taking down the post.
It did not take long for Indians to notice the mistake and angry comments began pouring in from across the world.
“Great Job, Please correct the Indian MAP on this Picture, Kashmir is Missing,” said one comment by Akhil Dev which was endorsed by almost 2,500 likes and over 350 replies.
“With lots of respect Dear Mr. Mark just correct the map otherwise world war 3 will begin from here on wards, .thereafter Planet will become without Pakistan ….#INDIAN,” said another comment.
Zuckerberg posted the infographic to announce the launch of Internet.org in Malawi, Africa and it showed the countries where Facebook’s initiative had been launched.
“With this launch, Internet.org is now available to more than 1 billion people around the world!” he posted.
Zuckerberg also came under attack on Twitter as many were angered by his carelessness.
It’s clip art.
I dont expect the dude to check every little image to make sure the borders are 1000000% correct in every little detail.
Next thing you know people will ding him for missing all of the exclave and enclaves along the India/Bangladesh border too.
Hope it was a mistake. If not, then it is similar to what the PC people do when they post pics of Israel without the west bank. Always siding with the muzzies.
If they were siding with the muzzles, they would never post any map of Israel, which according to the muzzles, does not exist.
They would love to do that. But since our country is still allies with Israel, the PC liberals can’t quite do that yet.
An Indian coworker once told me that India would never never give up Kashmir.
In this case I’d assume he was siding with Red China (since they claim it as well).
I do. He is supposed to be one of the most intelligent people in the world. Or at least that’s what he would have you believe. Why anyone would give a crap what this computer weenie has to say about anything is beyond me.
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