Misleading Translations and Falsehoods Are Swirling in Non-English Languages on Social Media

From an Inside the Times column by Megan DiTrolio headlined “The Misinformation Beat, Translated”:

Facts are facts no matter the language in which they are shared. Ahead of the midterm elections, misleading translations and blatant falsehoods about topics such as inflation and election fraud are swirling in non-English languages on social media — and multilingual fact checkers are struggling to keep up.