College Daily
| 留学生日报 | |
| Formation | 2014 |
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| Founder | Guoyu Timothy Lin |
| Founded at | Columbus, Ohio |
| Type | New media |
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| Staff | 52 (2021) |
| Website | www |
| College Daily | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 留学生日报 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 留學生日報 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | North America Students Studying Abroad Daily Newspaper | ||||||
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College Daily (Chinese: 留学生日报) is a new media publication whose primary audience is Chinese students studying in North America.
Overview
In August 2019, The New Yorker published a story about College Daily, calling it a "post-truth" publication where Chinese students in the U.S. receive their news." The story noted that College Daily had aggregated and reproduced content sourced from Infowars and RT as well as state propaganda outlets such as Sputnik News.[1]
College Daily articles about Yale have been linked to Chinese state propaganda by the Yale Daily News.[2]
History
The College Daily has spread misleading and false information about the 2019 Hong Kong Protests including that protesters would receive a $20 million reward for killing a police officer. The Diplomat described their efforts to spread misleading information as “notorious."[3]
In September 2019 the College Daily published a story calling for Australian journalist and academic Vicky Xiuzhong Xu’s estranged father to be expelled from China due to her outspoken journalism. The article asserted that Xu was an “American mouthpiece” and that she only criticized the Chinese government in order to get political asylum in Australia.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Zhang, Han (2019-08-19). "The "Post-Truth" Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Schrader, Isaiah. "SCHRADER: Beijing comes to Yale". yaledailynews.com. Yale Daily News. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Jung, Chauncey. "China's Changing PR Strategy for the Hong Kong Protests". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Bonyhady, Nick. "Outspoken journalist in Australia and father in China harassed online". www.smh.com.au. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 November 2019.