On Tuesday morning satirist Andy Borowitz wrote a column for the New Yorker lampooning the recent sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The tech billionaire didn't actually intend to buy the Post, Borowitz wrote, but he accidentally clicked on it while shopping on Amazon -- and now he wants to return it.
For fans of Borowitz, this was a typically amusing riff on the news. Not Xinhua. China's state-run news service translated Borowitz' story into Chinese and presented it as a straight news piece, and other Chinese publications dutifully picked it up.
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