Fake News Experts Dupe News Outlets
Top Asian publications among those printing bogus op-ed columns
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The columns were withdrawn without comment by the …
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