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Misinformation casts shadow on US-China trade truce
An alternate reality is unfolding across Chinese social media, where falsehoods is fueling anti-American sentiment that could undermine the fragile truce.
Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP.But an alternate reality is unfolding across social media platforms, including China’s Douyin and Weibo, where a surge of falsehoods is fueling anti-American sentiment that could undermine the fragile truce. “These narratives are almost certainly curated by the state, which has become increasingly fluent in harnessing social media,” Andrew Mertha, director of the SAIS China Global Research Center at Johns Hopkins University, told AFP. Photo: Claire Zidich, via Pexels.The accounts blamed Trump’s trade policies for enabling such deceptive marketing practices, while urging consumers to ditch those brands and purchase products directly from China.
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