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Fake News Experts Dupe News Outlets

Top Asian publications among those printing bogus op-ed columns

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John Berthelsen
Jul 08, 2020
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Hong Kong’s leading newspaper The South China Morning Post is one of about 40 organizations duped by a fake news operation, abruptly withdrawing opinion columns from a nonexistent columnist named Lin Nguyen suggesting, among other things, that protesters should stay home instead of taking to the streets.

The columns were withdrawn without comment by the …

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