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		realusername on Aug 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat i... Almost every CCP-owned channel on Facebook has bought fake subscribers, it's so visible they don't even try to hide it. As an example, CGTN French has 20M subscribers, more than any local French newspapers despite being virtually unknown in the country. If you go by subscribers count, it would be the most popular news platform of the country...

baby on Aug 7, 2020 [–]

Link?

realusername on Aug 7, 2020 | [–]

https://www.facebook.com/CGTNFrancais

You can compare that with the top newspapers of the country:

https://www.facebook.com/lemonde.fr https://www.facebook.com/lefigaro

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