(Headline Health) The Associated Press is distributing a video by a former Chinese Communist Party broadcaster in which she accuses Americans of vaccine disinformation.
AP’s coverage of Jingyi Sun’s video highlights her links to the University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Michigan State University and the University of Florida.
The AP headline identifies Jingyi Sun as a “Stevens Expert,” a reference to her current position as a business professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Yet, nowhere in its coverage does the AP disclose Jingyi Sun’s long ties to the Chinese Communist Party and official state propaganda.
Unmentioned by the AP is the fact that Jingyi Sun received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Beijing Foreign Studies University, a university under the direct administration of the Chinese government’s Ministry of Education.
AP also fails to mention that Jingyi Sun appeared on China Central TV (CCTV) for nearly seven years.
Based in Beijing, CCTV is a Chinese state-owned broadcast network controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The network carries 50 channels of CCP-approved programming in six languages with programs accessible to more than one billion viewers.
Stevens Institute of Technology also covered Jingyi Sun’s claims in a Jan. 27 press release titled “Defusing Fake News: New Stevens Research Points the Way.”
The story uses the term “fake news” 10 times, yet makes no references to Jingyi Sun’s background as an actual communist news propagandist.
Jingyi Sun also holds a master’s degree in film aesthetics from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Headline USA has repeatedly called to attention the increasingly propagandist tendencies of the Associated Press, once a bastion of objective journalism, as it transitions under new leadership.
Among the more egregious examples is the AP’s active decision to spread disinformation by downplaying COVID case counts during the peak of the highly contagious omicron variant.
The outlet also rushed to the defense of the Biden administration after a creepy propaganda campaign using beloved children’s character Big Bird to encourage children to get jabbed with the potentially fatal COVID vaccine.
Most recently, the AP falsely attempted to smear leading conservative news site Zero Hedge, colluding with unnamed intelligence officials to accuse the site of promoting Russian propaganda due to its skepticism and criticism of the Biden administration’s foreign policy.
The backlash has led many conservatives online to rename the wire syndicate “American Pravda.”
American Pravda is the arbiter of truth. Their objective experts issue fact-checks of misinformation.
This is from the AP fact-check of Dr. Malone, suspended by BigTech (enforcer of truth) after AP published it.
What do you think of the evidence presented in this AP Fact Check? pic.twitter.com/Ha7IUcA7bP
— Christina Pushaw 🐊🚛 (@ChristinaPushaw) January 2, 2022