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WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”

2017-10-10

The Chinese platform WeChat provided an inappropriate and racist English translation for the Chinese term for “black foreigner” in its messaging app.

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WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”