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Media Bias Fact Check rates the Washington Post as "Factual Reporting: HIGH" even though they accepted $4.6 million from the Chinese Communist Party to run the
by JohnBerea 6y ago
Media Bias Fact Check rates the Washington Post as "Factual Reporting: HIGH" even though they accepted $4.6 million from the Chinese Communist Party to run the China Watch section of their website with articles provided word for word by the CCP.[2]
The articles look exactly like real news articles except for the text "A paid supplement to the Wasington Post" in the upper right corner.[2] Had I not known better I would've assumed this meant I'd get a paywall if I viewed too many articles.
This seems every bit as egregarious as anything you'd find on ZeroHedge. I have a very low level of trust for almost all media, but I check Zero Hedge to at least see interesting items ignored by the mainstream.
1. https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Amendment-20200601-2.pdf https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Amendment-20200601-2.pdf
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20170715051533/http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170715051533/http://chinawatch...