Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown individual or individuals who then used sham social media accounts to interact with Chinese language activists, studies James Pomfret of Reuters.

Pomfret studies, “The false representations of the 2 journalists, Shanghai bureau chief Brenda Goh and Hong Kong-based correspondent Jessie Pang, beginning in late November, appeared on platforms together with Instagram and the Telegram message app.

“The impersonator or impersonators had been in search of details about a bunch linked to protests the identical month in opposition to China’s strict COVID-19 controls, in response to screenshots and a number of other accounts supplied to Reuters.

“An Australia-based Chinese language activist and dissident artist often called Badiucao first disclosed the impersonations on Saturday on Twitter.”

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