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Fokamultoday at 10:07 AM0 repliesview on HN

Btw I don't know how closely you follow Naomi Wu, but take that with grain of salt. (def. not defending bad journalists)

Naomi has huge youtube and she is very public figure in Shenzhen.

She has very weird opinion on Chinese government, she acts to like it but on the other hand with her sexual orientation (which was public knowledge, plastered all over reddit, twitter etc. way before any articles) and her admitting to bypass Chinese firewall etc. which is illegal.

Kinda weird, to do this, when you're public person.

And weirdest of all, she has/had Uyghur girlfriend and she basically said, that because of us (US/EU people) boycotting China for Xinjiang concentration camps for Uyghurs, nobody in Shenzen wants to hire Uyghur people, so WE are to blame.

I don't know if she really meant it, or she'd post it to twitter to suck Chinese government, you know what.

Imho, with grain of salt too, I think she was partially managed by Chinese agency way before any articles, and they got angry because she was unable to steer the article to "China great, West is bad".

Because I have experience what Chinese agencies are willing to pay for mediocre influencers in my small EU country (10mil. people) just to visit China and make videos how they're "great". And they have 1/10 following of what Naomi has.