{"id":95029,"date":"2016-06-13T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95029"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:40:39","slug":"facebook-accidentally-declared-the-philippines-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95029-facebook-accidentally-declared-the-philippines-at-war","title":{"rendered":"Facebook accidentally declared the Philippines at war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook mishap accidentally led the social media company to declare the Philippines at war.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook created a banner featuring the country&#8217;s flag in order to celebrate its National Independence Day on 12 June.<\/p>\n<p>However the flag used in the promotional banner featured an inverted colour scheme with red on top and blue on bottom.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/06\/12\/1592195\/facebook-sorry-over-philippine-flag-gaffe\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine law<\/a><\/strong>, this colour configuration can be used, but only during times of war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was unintentional, and we\u2019re sorry,&#8221; the company said to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/06\/12\/1592195\/facebook-sorry-over-philippine-flag-gaffe\" target=\"_blank\">The Philippine Star<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;We care deeply about the community in the Philippines and, in an attempt to connect people on Independence Day, we made a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Facebook says we&#8217;re at war. Happy Independence Day, Philippines. 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