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Intense online censorship seeks to dampen scandal over fuel-tainted cooking oil transported in tankers — the largest food safety controversy in China since revelations of melamine-tainted milk and baby formula
A bombshell exposé from state-media outlet Beijing News about the use of fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or disinfected between transports—has snowballed into the largest food safety controversy in China since the 2008 melamine-tainted milk and baby formula scandal. Multiple investigations are now underway, including one […]
Among the most recent deleted content is a video from an amateur online sleuth on content-sharing site Bilibili, and an article from the 21st Century Business Herald, a Chinese-language financial daily. His now-deleted video, which has been archived by CDT, garnered one million views within 12 hours of being posted, and drew high praise from viewers impressed with Gao’s resourceful detective work. Many articles about the tanker truck scandal have praised reporter Han Futao, who led the Beijing News investigative team, for his professionalism, courage, and dogged commitment to public-interest journalism.
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