When a projectile struck a Hong Kong woman in the eye this week as protesters clashed with the police, China responded quickly. Its state television network reported that the woman had been injured not by one of the police’s beanbag rounds, but by a protester.
The network’s website went further: it posted what it said was a photo of the woman counting out cash on a Hong Kong sidewalk – insinuating, as Chinese reports have claimed before, that the protesters are merely paid provocateurs. China’s information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters.
The network’s website went further: it posted what it said was a photo of the woman counting out cash on a Hong Kong sidewalk – insinuating, as Chinese reports have claimed before, that the protesters are merely paid provocateurs. China’s information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters.
