US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner (2019) (bbc.com)

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how is this news at all. it was far most likely a dev/someone testing something and accidentally added it to prod.

very woke of them /s

It's that damned Jabari tribe lobby in Washington pulling all the levers behind the scenes

If Wakanda existed I’d have moved my family there years ago. America is embarrassing af.

This is a 2019 article. There was a more recent mishap (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-gov...) which is still bad.

Why would Wakanda need their aid /s

Missing (2019) - this story is seven years old.

This is from 2019

Five bucks says they have used an LLM to put the list together.

Ok, this one seems to have a twin just released. I received from Gary Marcus' site:

> The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-seven-most-shambolic-t...