Trump tweets covfefe. The New York Times says it doesn't exist and in lockstep Google deletes the word from it's arabic translation dictionary.
Trump's Covfefe Tweet (Archive.is)
Trump's (2nd) Covfefe Tweet (Archive.is)
Covfefe Translation Easter Egg[pdf]
On May 30th, 2017 President Trump tweeted the word "covfefe". The New York Times reported that the word does not exist, and Google then deleted "covfefe" from its Arabic translation dictionary. This page shows the tweets, the internal Google covfefe design document and the internal documents on the covfefe censorship process from June 2017.
Quoted verbatim from the internal Google Translate documents linked above (the 'covfefe' Translate Easter egg design document and the two bug threads of June 1st to 5th, 2017):
We currently translate the query "cov fe'fe" from Arabic to English into "I will stand up". This created some confusion this week as users tried to translate Donald Trump's tweet from Wednesday night which had the word "covfefe" in it.
Since the word has no real meaning, we want to do an Easter egg that translates "cov fe'fe" and "covfefe" into "(¯\_( ツ )_/¯)" on Translate properties.
Rapid Response rule for a sensitive query related to a tweet.
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This page is part of the Google Leaks: 950+ pages of internal Google documents that Zach Vorhies, a Senior Software Engineer at Google and YouTube for 8.5 years, took with him when he resigned from Google in June 2019. He delivered them to the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2019 and released them to the public through Project Veritas. The documents describe, in Google's own words, how Google defined "fake news", built its "Machine Learning Fairness" system and kept blacklists across Google Search, YouTube and Google News. He tells the full story in his book Google Leaks: An Expose of Big Tech Censorship (Skyhorse Publishing).
Read the full archive on the Google Leaks page, the dated sequence of events in the timeline, and who Zach Vorhies is on the about page.