Lost in Translation: Google Finds a New Way to Censor

KTRH News’ Corey Olsen interviewed me on my recent article on Google Translate. A brief soundbite is available here, and below it is Olsen’s writeup of our more in depth discussion, titled “Lost in Translation: Google Finds a New Way to Censor.” (The New American also looked into this issue independently here.)

We’ve seen numerous examples in recent years of Google restricting or blocking content it doesn’t agree with…from limiting web searches, to taking down YouTube videos, to warning users about certain websites. Now, the tech behemoth has apparently found another way to control information—through its Google Translate service.

Raymond Ibrahim, author and Middle East expert, recently discovered how Google Translate misleads when he quoted an Arabic article about Palestinians praising violent jihad battles of the past. “I used Google Translate on that Arabic article, and that section about those battles is no longer mentioned,” he tells KTRH. “I thought I was seeing things, so I went back to the original Arabic article, and they were still there.”

And that’s not the only time Google Translate left out something Ibrahim wrote about radical Islam. It also happened with a column that was translated into French. “A phrase that I had written—something the left or woke narrative don’t want you to hear about Muslim persecution—on Google Translate, that little sentence is gone,” he says. “It was just a casual sentence and it was deleted.”

“So here is one more way that Google is actually hiding things and manipulating information.”

Ibrahim, who is a frequent critic of radical Islam, has also been restricted in Google searches and on YouTube. “If you Google a title of an article I wrote, even if you put parentheses around it which should definitely bring it up, it won’t even bring it up any more,” he says. “It’s a way to conceal ugly facts that everyone else is privy to, but keep them from people who use Big Tech.”

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Mary Alafouzo says

09/10/2021 at 12:57 PM

I am not surprised. I don’t use Google anymore. I use DuckDuckGo as search engine with Firefox as browser. And anything but Google for translation also try more than one translation if I want to make sure translation is correct. I haven’t deleted Google from my computer only because I don’t know what will happen if I do. Any better ideas are most welcome.

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Erin Eldridge says

09/10/2021 at 3:24 PM

Thanks for this, Raymond. I have noticed for a long time now the truth of what you say. David Collier has a good article on the same topic. It’s disturbing when you reflect on who/what Google is protecting/supporting.

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danknight says

09/10/2021 at 5:12 PM

Google is a Deep State Enterprise …

*** God bless Raymond and his family … and everyone here. We need His protection.

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- AlgorithmicAnalyst says
  
  09/11/2021 at 7:13 AM
  
  Thanks Dan!
  
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  - Mary Alafouzo says
    
    09/12/2021 at 6:18 AM
    
    Thanks from me too, Dan
    
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Hamish MacDonald says

09/11/2021 at 5:16 AM

Welcome to the new world order that controls “free” speech.
People who claim high moral ground frequently fail to produce the evidence that shows they have the backbone to go with it. So they distort the truth, and placate the already self-indulgent time wasters.

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