The racial slur was used by the Uber Support account.
Uber found itself in a flaming, hot seat when a racist tweet posted on behalf hit the web. The transportation service’s Twitter support account basked in controversy after an unknown worker replied to a customer complaint about a bad driver experience. The support account followed up on the customer by sincerely apologizing for the occurrence, but things quickly went left when the Twitter account referred to the client as a vile, racial slur. Though the tweet was since deleted, social media still got their hands on it and in response, crushed Uber to bits.
We'd like to sincerely apologize for the offensive tweet that was sent earlier. We're investigating what happened to make sure it doesn't happen again.
— Uber Support (@Uber_Support) April 29, 2019
welp, the streets will never forget pic.twitter.com/GWQTx7TRSc
— Amariπ and 199 others (@alsoknownasmaj) April 29, 2019
According to Mashable, who attempted to get an explanation as to how the latter occurred, no responses were given by Uber representatives. Though, a theory states the account which initiated the complaint was a troll which purposely changed his username to the N-word in order to prompt the ensuing automated response from Uber Support’s bot system. Nevertheless, the company should be extremely cautious of anything like that happening in the first place.
Dude changed his username to the N word & got an automated message from Uber then changed it to Dick. I love it but if you actually believe Uber had a racist agenda you're part of the "woke" problem. pic.twitter.com/yvPtTopAzk
— Liz Lemon (@RaahilR9) April 29, 2019
This, obliquely, is why the ability to edit tweets would be a horrible idea. Guy tweets at Uber after changing his display name to a racial slur so the bot will call him a racial slur, then changes it back so it just looks like Uber is calling people slurs https://t.co/Kjplxq0fHt
— ππππ€ππ (@Jimski) April 29, 2019
