Fake news story on Weibo reportedly stirs pro-Trump sentiment in China

America isn't the only country where fake right-wing news circulated on social media is sewing support for Donald Trump.

One of the top posts on the Chinese social networking site Weibo this week reportedly detailed how anti-Trump protesters were accosting Chinese Americans and blaming them for the president-elect's win, according to a Twitter thread from freelance ethnographer Christine Xu.

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But the only news story cited in the Weibo post — a supposed interview in the Asian-American blog NextShark — is nowhere to be found on the publication's site. Read more...

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