When the media is a blank paper
Image: Joseph Chan By Lee Je-Hoon There was once the notion that in order to accurately read China’s inner workings, you should read the South China Morning Post (SCMP), an
Once bitten, twice shy: the world is prepared as Covid-torn China resumes international travel
Image: Kayla Kozlowski Covid is tearing through China, and the Chinese government decided it is time to open its doors to allow citizens to travel abroad. Chinese citizens are flooding
The illusions of truth
Image: David Wirzba “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is often attributed to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
Infotainment 2.0: pervasive disinformation
Image: Camilo Jimenez Not too long ago, infotainment was the answer to survival for news organizations on the cusp of the digitalization wave. Be what hard-core journalists might have said
‘Persistance is victory’ in China’s zero-Covid strategy, but isolation and economic setback is reality
Image: Cal Gao Only a few months after the Winter Olympics in Beijing—held using a closed-loop system that Chinese state media lauded for delivering safe and “amazing result”— China announced
In the internet army business, more is better
Early this year, my phone was flooded with recruitment text messages of online critics for hire. At a time when consumers are constantly warned of online scamming, these messages could