Meta Employee Tells Uber Driver to Wait. Latter Says He Is Getting 'Threat of Murder'. See Viral Post

'Murder...': Delhi cab driver's mistranslated text panics rider; internet amused

People often book rides on aggregator apps and exchange texts when the ride arrives. One such exchange between a techie and a cab driver in Delhi has gone viral. Arnav Gupta, a software engineer at Meta, received a text from his Uber driver, which read, “I am facing a Murder Threat”. The engineer shared the experience on X saying he was shocked. “A chill ran down my spine, It is Delhi after all . Anything can happen,” he said. Today I made my U…

Meta employee tells Uber driver to wait. Latter says he is getting 'threat of murder'. See viral post

A Meta employee briefly believed his Uber driver was under a “threat of murder” before discovering it was a translation glitch that mistook “Mother Dairy” for “murder”, leaving social media in splits.

Lost in translation: Indian techie terrified after Uber driver's message misreads as threat

A Meta employee’s Uber ride turned frightening due to a mistranslated message. The false murder threat sparked widespread social media reactions and memes.

Meta employee tells Uber driver to wait. The latter says he is 'being threatened with murder'. See viral post

A simple communication error between a tech professional and his taxi driver has taken over social media — thanks to a translation error that briefly turned an Uber pickup into a life-or-death situation. Arnav Gupta, who works at Meta, shared on X (formerly Twitter) that he asked his Uber driver to wait for a few […]