How a Bad Chinese Translation Program Caused a Fake Racism Scandal for Abercrombie & Fitch [Hoaxes]

Twitter is freaking out over brown cargo pants which appear to be sold by Abercrombie and Fitch and are described as ‘Nigger Brown.’ It’s a hoax: the pants are listed on abercrombie-and-fitchoutlet.com, a bogus website registered in China that appears to sell knock-off A&F gear. But how did these pants end up being described so racist-ly in the first place? More »