China buys media influence by paying millions to US dailies


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It spent a total of $11,002,628 on advertising in US newspapers, and another $265,822 on advertising with Twitter….reports Asian Lite News China’s propaganda outlet China Daily paid millions to prominent US newspapers and magazines in the last six months to buy media influence, an independent analyst reported citing documents filed with the US Justice Department. According to disclosures made by the justice department, the state-run English-language newspaper China Daily paid several hundred thousand dollars to prominent American publications like Time magazine and Foreign Policy magazine in a span of six-month. As many as $700,000 was paid to Time magazine; $371,577...