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How Onion Spoof Slipped Past China's Humor-challenged Great Firewall

Alexa Olesen

Alexa Olesen is a Brooklyn-based writer who focuses mainly on China, particularly on politics, culture, and the one-child policy. She covered China for eight years as a correspondent for The...
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A spoof article about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being the sexiest man alive ended up a real news item in China as a result of Chinese whispers in the digital age.

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Topics: 
Media, Politics
Keywords: 
North Korea, Satire, Spoof, People’s Daily, China-North Korea Relations
 
Topics: 
Media, Politics
Keywords: 
North Korea, Satire, Spoof, People’s Daily, China-North Korea Relations
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