iPhone’s Siri declares Houthi leader president of Yemen
“Siri, who is the president of Yemen?”
Answer: “Muhammad Ali Al Houthi”.
“Erm, are you sure?”
With capitals falling to rebels, parallel parliaments backed by different regional powers duelling with each other, and governments overthrown, the Middle East’s shifting sands of power are making it difficult for information services to keep up.
If an iPhone owner had until Saturday night asked the interactive “personal assistant” programme Siri the question: Who is the president of Yemen, the smart phone’s screen would have displayed the answer: “Muhammad Ali Al Houthi”. It would also have stated that he took office on February 2 of this year.
But as all observers of Yemen will know, Siri was embarrassingly incorrect.
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