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Going Down A News Rabbit Hole In China – Peter Ford

After Chinese cyberspace revealed the story of Yang Shukuan, a mafia head in Tangshan and photos of his private armored vehicles and stretch limo, the Beijing-based Christian Science Monitor correspondent Peter Ford chased the story further and is puzzled by what he found. He interviewed me in his article, discussing the difficulties and challenges of judging online information. What he did not