Claim: A racist question was featured in the game Trivia Crack.
MIXTURE:
TRUE: A Trivia Crack user submitted a racist question for review by the game's administrators. | |
FALSE: The racist question was included in the official Trivia Crack game. |
Example: [Collected via e-mail, March 2015]
A friend posted this to Facebook and said it was a question on Trivia Crack. Is it real?
Origins: On
Etermax encourages users to submit questions for possible inclusion in the game. Those questions then go through a user rating process to determine which questions will be adopted. While the racist question at issue ("What is the African American's biggest flaw?") was submitted by a user, it was never approved for official game play.
After the photograph of the question and its putative multiple choice answers went viral, Trivia Crack took to Twitter to explain the situation:
@rustymk2 We'd like to apologize for the offensive content. The question and creator of the question were removed immediately from the game.
— Trivia Crack (@triviacrack) March 13, 2015
@NigerianPride_ We really appreciate your feedback. It's invaluable to the game and we urge everyone to report any offensive content.
— Trivia Crack (@triviacrack) March 13, 2015
@garvin_sr That image is from the user rating process. I can assure you it was NEVER approved into the actual game.
— Trivia Crack (@triviacrack) March 13, 2015
Last updated: 13 March 2015