China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds

Australian study finds a coordinated effort by CCP's propaganda apparatus' to distract from critical BBC reports and redirect narrative

China's Communist party orchestrated an international campaign to undermine the BBC and discredit its reporting during the first two months of the year, using western social media networks, an Australian thinktank has found.

Attacks intensified in response to high-profile BBC reports, including an investigation into systemic rape in internment camps in Xinjiang that was broadcast in early February, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said, in its report, Trigger Warning".