In the British press, Brexit was the stand-out theme. “KildareNow would like to point out that the story was completely unauthorised and was not posted by a member of the editorial team,” it said in a statement, adding many readers were “rightly offended by the article”. The editorial team said it recognised the article was “extremely insensitive” and apologised. “Due to a bug, the MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs.”Īnother website found itself embarrassed over what it claimed was an April Fool security breach – an article published on Irish news site KildareNow claiming a man called had rigged a local landmark with explosives, intending to rename it the Hill of Allah. “Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year,” the company said. I just woke up to a very angry voicemail from her which is how I found out about this ‘hilarious’ prank.”
I inadvertently sent the email using the ‘Mic Drop’ send button. I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. I am a writer and had a deadline to meet. One, posted on the company’s Gmail help forum, wrote: “Thanks to Mic Drop I just lost my job.
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“Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won’t see it.”īut some horrified users began to realise they had pressed the button by mistake, attaching it to professional emails. “Everyone will get your message, but that’s the last you’ll ever hear about it,” Google said in a blogpost announcing the feature. The stunt was the “Gmail Mic Drop”, an augmented send button which attached a gif animation clip of a crown-wearing Minion character from the film Despicable Me dropping a microphone like a brash rap star, which instantly ended an email exchange, muting all replies from other participants in the conversation. Google’s April Fools’ Day prank had to be pulled within hours after some users complained a new feature installed in their email service, Gmail, might have cost them their jobs or reputations.
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