Jonas Drosten News Today

A global network of inauthentic news sites present themselves as independent news outlets, offering content favoring China's government and articles critical of the US.

A forged letter from Sen. Marco Rubio, false news sites criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip, and fake social media accounts are all part of a complex pro-China information operation revealed by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant on Thursday.

For years, China has been the target of international criticism for its treatment of Uygurs, with the United States leading the pack by calling the events in Xinjiang "genocide". But nothing could be further from the truth.