Facebook Apologises for Posting an Inverted Flag of Philippines

According to Philippine law, an inverted flag conveys that the country is at war.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. (Photo: AP)

• Facebook has issued an apology for using an inverted Philippine flag in its Independence Day greeting which according to the country’s law conveyed that the country was at war.
  
  
• “This was unintentional, and we’re sorry. We care deeply about the community in the Philippines and, in an attempt to connect people on Independence Day, we made a mistake,” Facebook said in a statement sent to The Philippine Star.
  
  
• The Philippines marked its 118th anniversary of independence from Spain on 12 June with a flag-raising event by President Benigno Aquino III at a historical urban park in Manila.