India, July 18 -- Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has strongly objected to "faulty auto translation of Kannada content on Meta platforms".

This follows after Meta's automatic translation tool wrongly declared Siddaramaiah dead while translating a condolence message posted by the chief minister's office on Facebook.

The post, originally written in Kannada to mourn the death of veteran actor B Saroja Devi, was mistranslated into English, drawing flak from Siddaramaiah and an official missive to Meta.

Taking to social media platform X, the chief minister wrote, "Faulty auto-translation of Kannada content on Meta platforms is distorting facts and misleading users. This is especially dangerous when it comes to official communications....