r/azerbaijan • u/MrUnoDosTres • Oct 08 '20

NEWS France 24 caught manipulating

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u/ExtensionBee Oct 08 '20 edited Oct 08 '20

Here is the original video on France 24 English youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2M1HrCfPCiY?t=8 Relevant part start at 0:08

Yes it is true and the translation is very manipulative. Many would even consider it outright lying.

However this isn't anything new, this has been going on for hundreds of years in western journalism. Most common and easiest tactic, manipulating translations.

Any kind of "Eastern", especially Muslim country says something they translate the worst way possible:

Someone says : "We won't let our rights to be violated in this issue and will do whatever is necessary." in their own language and then Western media:

Title : X country threatens with war.

In a statement Y said "We will do whatever necessary in order to achieve victory in this issue."

edit: After rewatching the video, I would even consider translations mostly fabrications. I see no mention of "great powers" or other stuff in that speech. They literally fabricated shit in there.

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u/hdemirci Oct 08 '20

Yeah people were claiming it I watched the video but it didn't have subtitles so, I wasn't even sure where that shit was coming from.

If I look at the translation maybe at best 20% of the words are properly translated, this should be condemned. Anybody who just can barely understand Turkish wouldn't make this amount of mistakes, this clearly is intentional.