'Chamber of Rats': Mexican parliament renamed in Google Maps prank
Source: Reuters
'Chamber of Rats': Mexican parliament renamed in Google Maps prank
Reuters in Mexico City
Wednesday 11 January 2017 02.17 GMT
Pranksters changed the name of Mexicos lower house of Congress to the Chamber of Rats on Google Maps on Tuesday in the latest dig at the political class during a testing start to the year for the countrys government.
The lower house, also known as the Chamber of Deputies, became the Chamber of Rats, using the Spanish word rata, which is also slang for thief in Mexico. Our teams are working fast to resolve this incident, Google Mexico said in a statement, explaining that place names on the online mapping service came from third parties, public sources and contributions from users.
It was the second such attack in the space of a few days.
Mexican media reported at the weekend that the presidential residence appeared as the Official Residence of Corruption on Google Maps before Google Mexico removed it from the map and apologized for inappropriate content created by a user.
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