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MAGA Melts Down Over iPhone Bug That Replaces the Word ‘Racist’ With ‘Trump’

ROTTEN TO THE CORE

The company blamed its “speech recognition model that powers Dictation.”

US President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron (out of frame) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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The MAGAverse accused Apple of being biased against the president after the company admitted that iPhones had been replacing the word “racist” with "Trump." A feature that allows people to dictate sentences using their voice would replace the president’s name with the word “racist” before recalibrating to the correct term. Apple said it was rolling out a fix, though a Daily Beast test showed the issue appeared to already be resolved Wednesday. “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” Apple told the Associated Press. The company, whose CEO Tim Cook Trump recently praised, blamed phonetic overlap from the shared “r” consonant. “Apple hates MAGA and hates Trump,” one person raged on X. In his recent praise, Trump was reacting to Apple’s announcement that it will funnel billions into the U.S. by hiring 20,000 new employees over the next four years and establishing a new server factory in Texas. However, Trump on Wednesday, said that Apple should “get rid of DEI rules.”

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