(Hong Kong / Beijing Composite Television) Some people who are unknown are posing as two reporters of Luyou Club to set up fake accounts on social media to collect information with Chinese rights protection people on the network platform.
According to Reuters and Agence France -Presse, Reuters reporters who have been identified are the chief reporter of the Shanghai Branch Brenda Goh and Jessie Pang, a special agent in Hong Kong.
In November last year, the "white paper movement" of anti -Qing zero policies broke out in various parts of China, and the fake accounts of two reporters appeared on platforms such as IG and communication applications Telegram.
According to the screenshots received by Reuters and the recall of the parties, these fake accounts try to use the information of white paper.
Chinese activists and objections "Ba Di Toshu", last Saturday (February 25) revealed an impersonal incident on Twitter.
He said that a person who claimed to be Jessie Peng asked him to provide information about the online platform Citizen Daily.The platform has reported many demonstrations of zero -zero policy since last year, and it is one of the channels for protesters to share information.
Pan Di Cao was doubtful about the language and questioning of fake reporters, and asked the other party to confirm his identity through the verified Twitter account that Jessie Peng had obtained.However, the other party claims that the Twitter account is operated by the Reuters team, and she has no control.In order to obtain the trust of Ba Di Cao, fake reporters also provided photos of Jessie Peng's reporter's certificate, but the certificate has expired.
Another activist also said that since November last year, he spoke with a fake Brenda Wu through Telegram for three months, and revealed to the other party the plan to organize protests in the future.He found that he might be fooled after seeing Ba Dancao on Twitter last week.
Reuters cannot determine the main envoys behind these fake journalists. The spokesman said: "We are investigating the incident of the Reuters reporter being pretended to be theft and the reporter's certificate, and will take appropriate action."
A administrator of Citizen Daily responded to the comments request that they suspected that the Chinese government was involved in these pretending behaviors.Chinese officials did not respond to relevant inquiries.
China Foreign Journalists Club on Wednesday (March 1) in a report saying that foreign media in China were strictly controlled in 2022, including wide harassment and continuous surveillance.
The report said that nearly half of foreign journalists were ordered to leave somewhere or refused to enter due to health and safety reasons last year.
