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Apple iPhones swap the word ‘racist’ for ‘Trump’

US President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump (AP)
  • Apple has admitted that a bug in iPhones is causing the word "racist" to be briefly replaced with "Trump" when using the voice-to-text feature.
  • The company insists the error is unintentional and is working on a fix.
  • The bug seems to occur intermittently and is attributed to the phonetic similarity between the words.
  • Some Trump supporters have interpreted the bug as evidence of anti-Trump bias within Apple.
  • This incident follows other tech-related controversies involving political figures, including accusations against Meta for automatically subscribing users to new presidential administration accounts.
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