BBC accused of false reporting over China censorship claims

Feminist anti-war group Codepink launches petition calling on broadcaster to retract the story

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A petition from feminist anti-war group Codepink demanding the broadcaster retract a “false report on China” gained over 1,500 signatures in a few hours since it was shared yesterday.

They urged the BBC to focus on the “central story” of the catastrophic flood — the climate crisis – rather than “using” the tragedy to “spread misinformation about China.”

Their message to BBC editors read: “Instead of documenting the human consequences of the accelerating climate crisis, the BBC instead chose to turn this tragedy into another anti-China story.”

It said claims that footage was broadly “censored” deserves serious scrutiny, considering how “widely reported across Chinese media the floods have been.”

An “assumption of secrecy, censorship” in reporting on China “in the face of readily available evidence to the contrary” should raise “serious questions about bias and journalistic standards,” they added.

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