talked about. inside china state media staying silent. no mention in the mainland s tv or digital media. outside, those news outs eagerly tweeting updates of peng in english on a platform blocked in their own country, an irony not lost on millions following the story outside china, some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling but not talking at a tennis tournament, having dinner with friends and a chinese sports official who just so happens to mention the exact date several times. cnn has no way to independently verify these videos or this email, supposedly from peng, to the head of the women s tennis association last week, claiming, everything is fine, a computer cursor visible in this apparent screenshot. the head of the wta telling outfront he s not convinced. i m just struggling to agree
reporter: controlling the narrative means scrubbing social media. the explosive post on november 2nd, accusing a retired chinese leader of sexual assault erased within 30 minutes. look for the story on china ease leading search engine. you get this message. sorry. no relevant results found. the scandal so politically sensitive a high profile roughered to it on twitter as the thing people talked about. state media staying silent. no mention in the mainland s tv or digital media. the news outlets eagerly tweeting updates and images in english on a platform blocked in their own country. an irony not lost on millions following the story outside of china. some mocking the state media tweets. she s seen smiling but not talking ant a tennis tournament. having dinner with friends and a chinese sports official who happens to mention the exact
about. no mention in the mainland s tv or digital media. outside, news outlets tweeting updates of peng. in english, on a platform blocked in their own country, an irony not lost on millions. some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling, but not talking, at a tennis tournament. having dinner with friends and a chinese sports official, who just so happens to mention the exact date several times. cnn has no way to independently verify these videos or this email, supposedly from peng. to the head of the women s tennis association last week, claiming everything ask fine. a computer cursor visible in this apparent screen shot. the head of the wta telling jth outfront he s not convinced. i m just struggling to agree to that and don t believe that s the truth at all. reporter: the wta demanding
sorry, no relevant results found. the scandal so politically sensitive, a high-profile state prop propagandaist said it s the thing people talk about. inside state media staying silent. no mention on the tv or digital media. outside, those news outlets eagerly tweeting updates and images of peng in english on a platform blocked in their country. an irony not lost on millions following the story outside china. some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling, but not talking at a tennis tournament. having dinner with friends. and a chinese sports official who just so happens to mention the exact date several times. cnn has no way to independently verify these videos, or this email supposedly from peng to the head of the women s tennis association last week, claiming, everything is fine. a computer cursor visible in
inside china, state media staying silent. no mention in the mainland s tv or digital media. outside, those news outlets eagerly tweeting updates and images of peng. in english. on a platd form blocked in their own country. an irony not lost on millions following the story outside china. some even mocking the state media tweets. peng is seen smiling but not talking at a tennis tournament. having dinner with friends. and a chinese sports official who just so happens to mention the exact date several times. cnn has no way to independently verify these videos or this e-mail, supposedly from peng to the head of the women s tennis association last week claiming everything is fine. a computer cursor visible in this apparent screen shot. the head of the wta telling out front he s not convinced. i m just struggling to to agree to that. and and don t believe that s