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A few days ago, I had an English language article translated into German to use it for my blog. When I was going trough the text checking for errors, I wondered why the German term for "right-wing extreme" was mentioned so often. As it turned out, the translation tool changed most attribution terms affiliated with being politically right-wing into right-wing extreme. Realizing that I have stumbled over an anomaly that should not be there, I decided to test other texts and different translation tools – most with the same result. Finally, I also took a look YouTubes automatic translation of subtitles and the results are so damning that it may break the entire company.