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WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”
The Chinese platform WeChat provided an inappropriate and racist English translation for the Chinese term for “black foreigner” in its messaging app.
- Date it happened
- 2017-10-10
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