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‘Swedish TV Accidentally Puts Subtitles from a Kids’ Show over a Political Debate’ Claim Swedish tv accidentally [put] subtitles from a kids' show over a political debate, and it's brilliant. Rating Decontextualized Like this fact check? Reporting An October 2 2021 Facebook post ( screengrab included) contained a claim that a Swedish TV station accidentally put subtitles from children’s’ programming over a political debate: Beneath an apparent username from an unspecified platform (nerdeas,) two captions appeared. The first was the post itself, and the second the purported subtitle (which had presumably been converted from Swedish to English). They read: Swedish TV accidentally puts subtitles from a kid’s show over a political debate, and it’s brilliant: I will build the best sand castle in the galaxy At the top left corner of the TV screen was the word direkt, and a station identifier (svt2) was visible to the right of the top corner. SVT2 is indeed a Swedish broadcast network : SVT2 (SVT Två; commonly referred to as Tvåan), is one of the two main television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. Launched in 1969 by Sveriges Radio, the channel was until the 1990s the most watched in Sweden for many years, but now serves as SVT’s specialist television network, carrying more highbrow and minority programming compared to the more mainstream SVT1. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Incidentally, the claim was shared to Reddit’s r/europe in October 2017, indicating the caption swap was not in 2021, but in May of that year: TIL: Swedish TV channel accidentally put subtitles from a kid’s show over a political debate in May from europe But it was apparently earlier still. A January 2016 CBC Canada article (subtitled It’s not every day you see a minister talking about dinosaur equality) reported that the incident had purportedly taken place that month: Parliamentary debates can be pretty boring, unless your elected leaders appear to be arguing about sand castles, dinosaurs, and submarine trains. As seen above, [in January 2016] the leader of Sweden’s Liberal party seemed to make a surprising declaration. In reality, he didn’t say any of what was captioned in the video. SVT2 was running the Swedish equivalent of CPAC, SVT Forum, which showcases debates in the Rikstag, the country’s national legislature. The closed captions for a children’s show were switched with that of the debate on some TVs according to SVT, which says it did not intentionally switch the captions. CBC credited a January 15 2016 Imgur post by u/TheBlondeSwede for screenshots of the swapped captions: Swedish TV accidentally put subtitles from Kids Channel on political debate In that post, the original Swedish caption was visible instead of the English version. It read: Jag ska bygga galaxens bästa sandslott! We ran it through Google Translate, which returned a proximate version: I’ll build the galaxy’s best sand castle! Part of what made the claim amusing was imagining that the glitch had been broadcast widely. But CBC added context suggesting both that the captions may have been specific to that Imgur user, and adding that they had gone viral several times: As for how this happened, it might have been a problem with TheBlondeSwede’s TV and not SVT, Sweden’s public broadcaster. On some older TVs can still choose the old teletext page for the different channels’ subtitles, while checking on a different channel, SVT’s Undertexts manager, Anna Zetterson, said in Swedish on its Facebook page. So SVT, or any operator, didn’t send these out. But it is something you can amuse yourself with on an older television set. As a result images like these, where the visuals are mismatched with the subtitles, has happened quite a few times before. It has gone viral several times and it may look funny, Catarina Wilson, a spokeswoman for SVT, told the Australian Associated Press. In the excerpt above, CBC linked to a purported Facebook response from Zetterson, and an Australian Associated Press article. Neither link was functional; the Facebook page linked was completely blank, and the Yahoo News link redirected to the main page. Additional references often involved non-functioning links, but a search for Jag ska bygga galaxens bästa sandslott! led to a January 15 2016 article from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet : Dinosaurs, sand castles, earth creatures. That was, among other things, what the party leaders talked about in the Riksdag on Wednesday [January 13 2016] – at least if one were to believe the subtitles on TV at the newspaper Smålandsposten’s editorial board. In reality, their television set had happened to receive subtitles from Barnkanalen’s various programs, something that was immortalized in a picture of the newspaper’s editorial writer Blanche Jarn and news director Jens Pehrson. Several of their photos have since been widely circulated on Facebook and Twitter. An October 2021 Facebook meme stated that Swedish television accidentally added subtitles from a children’s television show to a political debate, a claim that has circulated intermittently since January 2016. Iterations were often misdated and many instances of original documentation were obscured due to link decay . According to Aftonbladet , the glitch occurred on January 13 2016, after which time images of the humorous captions spread on social media. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged imgur , link decay , miscaptioned , misleading chyron , reddit , sweden , viral facebook posts
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