US fake news is infiltrating China, one of the most tightly controlled media environments, as accounts set up to earn advertising revenues flood the country’s most popular social platforms with sensational content.
By pumping out “clickbait” stories on WeChat and Weibo, some channels have gained hundreds of thousands of followers, allowing them to sell advertising space.
In a country where access to many legitimate US news sources is blocked by the “Great Firewall”, fake news about American politics, often reinforcing longstanding Chinese suspicions about US biases, tends to bring in the most readers.
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