Not So Black And White? Panda Fibs Fuel Anti-US Vibe In China
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 3, 2023
Chomping peacefully on a fruitsicle cake in her grassy Washington zoo enclosure Mei Xiang is blissfully unaware that she and a handful of other cute pandas are at the center of a ferocious misinformation campaign driving anti-US sentiment in China.
Evidence-free claims that pandas have been abused at US zoos have ricocheted across Chinese social media in recent months, fanning anti-American perceptions amid already fraught ties between Washington and Beijing.
The falsehoods, which researchers say were amplified by clout-chasing influencers, have cast a shadow on Beijing's "panda diplomacy," the decades . . .
