China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda – The New York Times

We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we’ve ever stayed at. It’s the first in the world built inside a quarry. Stick around when we show you around. Catch you later. Millions have watched Lee and Oli Barrett’s YouTube dispatches from China. The father and son duo visit hotels in exotic locales, tour out-of-the-way villages, sample delicacies in bustling markets and undergo traditional ear cleanings. The Barretts are part of a crop of new social media personalities who paint cheery portraits of life as foreigners in China — and also hit back at criticisms of Beijing’s authoritarian governance, its policies toward ethnic minorities and its handling of the coronavirus. “All the West are hoping to do is to destabilize the area of Xinjiang to stop the rise of China.” Xinjiang Genocide – The Campaign to Take Down CHINABarrett “Maybe it was America first to infect the world with coronavirus.” COVID Started in America First?!The JaYoe Nation “No one in the West could possibly imagine that China would be this successful. And this is the big reason why Western media is always attacking China.” The Real Reason Western Media Lies about ChinaCyrus Janssen “A genocide,…
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