The claim

According to a screenshot of a 2012 headline, Ukraine was running the largest child pornography ring in the world at the time.

Our conclusion

The title of the article is mistranslated by Google Translate, in fact it's just about a single Ukrainian who ran the ring.

Yes, of course, Mimikama. Now you've become megalomaniacal, or what? Do you want to be smarter than Google? Is it then not true that Ukraine operated a child pornography ring? But it's on the internet! On a real news site! And everyone can still read it there… as long as you don’t know English and therefore use Google Translate.

The shared screenshot

With almost 30 percent market share, Google Chrome is currently the most used browser in Germany. Finally, it also has an extremely practical advantage: Google Translate is built in. This is a huge advantage, especially for users who only speak German, as pages in other languages ​​are completely translated.

This is probably what happened when someone took this screenshot:

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The automatically translated article

On June 12, 2012, the British Daily Mail published an article that, translated into German, reads:

“American prosecutors accuse Ukraine of running the largest known child pornography ring in the world.”

The screenshot is not fake!

In any case, there was no tinkering with the source code to create a fake screenshot. You can try it out for yourself, the article can be found HERE . Open it with Google Chrome and page translation and you will see the exact headline above!

Lost in translation

But if you have accessed the article in English and are even a little familiar with the language, you will certainly be surprised. For comparison, let's put the original article and the translation side by side:

The translation turns “Ukrainian” into “Ukraine”
The translation turns “Ukrainian” into “Ukraine”

The solution to the puzzle: Google Translate misinterprets the sentence! While the single word “Ukrainian” is correctly translated into “Ukrainian” or “Ukrainian” in Google Translate, it (for whatever reason) creates “Ukraine” from it in the sentence.

In addition, you shouldn't just read the headlines, because even in the German translation it is clear in the article that it is not about the entire country, but about an individual citizen of the country:

“Maksym Shynkarenko, a 33-year-old from Kharkov, Ukraine, founded and operated a Ukraine-based child pornography website that had customers around the world and resulted in 560 convictions in the U.S. alone, the U.S. Attorney's Office for New York said Jersey."

sentenced to 30 years in prison .

Additional source:

dpa
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