{"id":6753,"date":"2019-08-11T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/hong-kong-china-unrest-beijing-media-response"},"modified":"2019-08-11T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T09:00:46","slug":"beijings-new-weapon-to-muffle-hong-kong-protests-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6753","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s new weapon to muffle Hong Kong protests: fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s media used to ignore the turmoil. Now the state is waging a campaign  that could pave the way for intervention<\/p>\n<p>As Hong Kong enters its third month of mass anti-government protests, across the border in China, people are seeing a very different version of events.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, as protests entered their tenth weekend and demonstrators and police clashed in Hong Kong, the <em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em> posted an article on the Chinese WeChat webchat service saying members from \u201call parts of Hong Kong society\u201d were calling for the \u201cviolence to stop\u201d. As peaceful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/10\/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-protest-groups\" title=\"\">rallies at the Hong Kong airport continued over the weekend<\/a>, Chinese state media posted videos on Weibo of a tussle between demonstrators and an angry resident yelling: \u201cWe just want Hong Kong to be safe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/11\/hong-kong-china-unrest-beijing-media-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s media used to ignore the turmoil. Now the state is waging a campaign  that could pave the way for interventionAs Hong Kong enters its third month of mass anti-government protests, across the border in China, people are seeing a very different v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}