HONG KONG – China’s global campaign to expand the reach of its political positions is helping it secure an iconic piece of online real estate: first-page search results on Google and other major Western portals.
Content depicting Beijing’s position on its human rights record and the origins of COVID-19 now regularly appears in top results on Google, Bing and YouTube, according to a new report From the Brookings Institution and another Washington think tank, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, which seeks to study and oppose the influence of authoritarian governments.