CNN's Susceptibility to Chinese Propaganda Isn't New or Unusual

April 17, 2020

| AAN Staff | Media | 1

CNN has long parroted talking points from the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).

The liberal network went so far as to publish supposedly objective reports based on a press release from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA); unfortunately, that colossal failure wasn’t an isolated incident.

The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott has more:

Stated clearly: CNN’s article reporting the Chinese Navy “has done a much better job controlling coronavirus than the US Navy” could hardly be told apart from the PLA press release it cited. It was an almost exact replica.

“There is a word for anyone who takes the word of an authoritarian regime, with a long record of lying, whether it was President Trump praising China’s clearly flawed response to Coronavirus or U.S. media repeating clearly bogus PLA talking points: Fool,” Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at New America told the Daily Caller.

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Lyman Stone, an Adjunct Fellow at American Enterprise Institute (AEI), echoed these concerns. He called CNN’s propaganda push an “egregious mistake” that is “systematic of a wider credulousness towards communist propaganda in a lot of the outlets.”

CNN previously dismissed concern the outlet was simply repeating propaganda from China’s PLA, calling the post on the site a “single update from our international site’s 24-7 Live Story.”