the country, and the video was prerecorded. less than 15 minutes later, cctv flashed a news alert claiming zelenskyy has left kyiv. initially without any acontr acontribution. more than 160 chinese state media outlets reposted the alert. a hash tag that says zelenskyy left kyiv later got 510 million views on chinese social media. and yet it was not true. perhaps most damning, an internal memo purportedly from state-run beijing news surfaced on line two days before the russian invasion even started. the memo directed staff not to publish anything negative about russia or pro west. it was mistakenly posted on the outlet s social media account before being set to private and eventually deleted. cnn research has found that china s major state media outlets appear to be following that playbook. of the most re-tweeted posts from february 24th through march 3rd, more than 46% contained