CNN left red-faced after confusing Australia and Austria
CNN has been slammed for confusing Australia with Austria in a live news report which has been going viral on social media.
The 24-hour US network news channel has been mocked on social media after confusing Australia with Austria.
In midst of the of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe, the 24-hour US news channel reported that Australia was building a fence along its border with Slovenia in a super.
Australians who saw this would likely have been taken aback by the absurd claim, which of course is geographically incorrect.
Matthew Yglesia was one of the first to notice the shocking typo, suggesting the world was being a "little paranoid" over the crisis.
This seems a little paranoid for an island nation thousands of miles away. pic.twitter.com/6jTLYhGwqz
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 29, 2016
@mattyglesias @killmebilly hahaha..the old Austria-Australia conundrum arises to mock us!
— Lenna Leprena (@LennaLeprena) February 29, 2016
One Twitter user thought the captioner was too "American" to notice the mistake.
When you're too American to know the difference between Austria and Australia https://t.co/EF2scGWECF
— Tweets From Aleppo (@halabtweets) February 29, 2016
@mattyglesias They are just upset Austria won all those Oscars.
— Malcolm Farr (@farrm51) February 29, 2016
Another Twitter user said they were waiting on confirmation that Adolf Hitler was born in Australia, others did not know how to break the news to Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
@killmebilly @LennaLeprena @mattyglesias Waiting for CNN to reveal that Adolf Hitler was born in Australia.
— Sir Horace Rumpole (@TerenceBright) March 1, 2016
@mattyglesias @banas51 Don't tell Malcolm or he'll send a dozen subs to defend our fence on the Slovenian border. #auspol
— citizen grafiti (@grafiti) February 29, 2016
All in all, whomever was responsible for the error was either confused or may need a geography refresher course.
It isn't the first time the internet users have slammed the news station.
In February last year CNN apologised for a technical glitch which showed a photograph of Vladimir Putin being used to identify Jihad John.
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