China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics

Influencers told to extol country's virtues on social media despite diplomatic boycotts of Beijing Games over human rights record An army of western social media influencers, each with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram or Twitch, is set to spread positive stories about China throughout next month's Winter Olympics. Concerned about the international backlash against the Beijing Games amid a wave of diplomatic boycotts, the government has hired western PR professionals to spr...