. > > The transnational flow of disinformation fuels Chinese Islamophobia, > though it remains rooted in local contexts and problems. > > Chinese netizens import most of the fake stories about Muslims that > circulate in China from alt-right websites and online communities in the > U.S. and Europe. For example, after the New Zealand massacre, anti-Muslim > users on Weibo ( https://weibo.com/3138561560/HlNS11xsS ) and WeChat ( > https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oGMj6N4lG7QvOvkGZpbm7Q ) circulated the story > that around the time of the New Zealand attack, Muslims killed 120 > Christians in Nigeria. Breitbart ( > https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2019/03/16/nigerian-muslim-militants-kill-120-christians-three-weeks/ > ) and other Western alt-right sites originally covered that story, which > the journalism fact-checking website Snopes wrote ( > https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nigeria-christians-muslims/ ) failed to > “properly explain the complexity of the conflict”—which was “primarily a > dispute over natural resources and land usage,” not about religion. > > > > The anti-Muslim community on the Chinese Internet regularly translating > and circulating alt-right articles from the English-speaking > world—following the explosion of such content from the Western alt-right > since 2016—helps explain the rapid development of Islamophobia in China > over the last few years. There is an active online community ( > https://www.cjr.org/analysis/weibo-new-zealand-massacre.php ) of volunteers > who download Prager University alt-right explainer videos, Jordan > Peterson’s videos, and other alt-right materials from YouTube, translate > and add Chinese subtitles, and upload them to Weibo. > >
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