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The Wikipedia Whitewash That Cleared the Way for Trump Tower Moscow
Read more: The Wikipedia Whitewash That Cleared the Way for Trump Tower MoscowAs he was chasing a Trump Tower deal in Moscow, Trump associate Felix Sater — or someone working on behalf of Sater — was working hard to whitewash Trump’s Wikipedia biography. Felix Sater — the Russian-American real estate developer and former adviser to President Donald J. Trump — is back in the news, following a…
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Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece
Read more: Facebook Continues to Host Political Ads from Chinese Communist Party MouthpieceThe ads comprise two videos from the Global Times defending China’s crackdown on political protests and attacking the Trump administration’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic. Update, August 28, 2020: The two Global Times ads have been removed from Facebook’s ad library. A message reads: “This ad is no longer available in the library. This…
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The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed Paper
Read more: The Economist Disappears “Advertisement Feature” Paid for by Chinese State-Backed PaperPaid content from the Beijing Review included an article attacking western news outlets and defending China’s botched response to the coronavirus outbreak. source In April, I bylined a story in BuzzFeed News about how during the pandemic, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph continued to sell advertising space on its site to the People’s Daily Online,…