This photo taken on June 12, 2021 shows Chinese podcasters (from left to right) Yang Yi, Xie Ruohan, Meng Chang and Wang Qing, attending a yearly forum with podcast fans at a bookstore in Beijing. - A lesbian coming to terms with her sexuality, a village covering up abuses and a dissection of the three-child policy -- an explosion of Chinese podcasts are wrestling with social issues in ways unlike the state-filtered media. - TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-SOCIETY-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY-LIFESTYLE,FOCUS BY BEIYI SEOW AND JADE GAO (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-SOCIETY-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGY-LIFESTYLE,FOCUS BY BEIYI SEOW AND JADE GAO (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images)
  • According to a new report by U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the Chinese marketing firm Shanghai Haixun Technology hosted a ring of at least 72 fake news sites in 11 languages with corresponding fake social media personas that pushed Chinese government talking points. 
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