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On October 16, a netizen published an article titled "If criticism of a country's prime minister can only be built on vulgarity, is it clarity or sorrow?", criticizing some media for vulgarizing the diplomatic interactions of female politicians and replacing discussion of foreign policy with gender stereotypes; the article received 64,000 likes.

On October 15, Xiaohongshu users noticed that Xinhua News Agency had reposted a video of Zheng Qinwen's China Open title-winning interview from Guancha.cn, without retaining the watermark of the original interviewing outlet VOGUE or noting the original source.

Netizens questioned why a post reproducing a Xinhua interview, with the watermark cropped out, was taken down on the grounds of "distorting and misinterpreting national policies and regulations." Xinhua subsequently edited the video caption to add Guancha.cn as the source, but still made no mention of VOGUE.

On October 7, Xinhua News Agency released a flash report on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, stating only that "2 scientists won the prize," without mentioning their names, nationalities, or the reasons for the award, drawing questions from netizens in the comments; Xinhua Online's subsequent report that day added the winners' identities and the reasons for the award.

China Daily's Douyin account posted a 16-second video in which remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir were edited and translated to appear as a threat to kill Palestinian women and children, sparking outrage among Chinese netizens.

Netizens found the roughly 1-minute original video on foreign platforms and re-translated it, showing that Ben-Gvir was in fact accusing Palestinian prisoners of taking part in an attack that killed 48 people — a context completely opposite to the China Daily version.

On September 4, 2026, regarding the case of a Chinese man who killed a female student in South Korea, domestic media blurred the suspect's photo released by the Korean police while disclosing the victim in detail, trending on Weibo and sparking controversy over media ethics.

On August 21, 2026, media reported that a 60-year-old acupuncturist was sentenced to three years and three months for raping an 18-year-old female nurse. Weibo pushed the story onto the trending list under the headline that the victim had not cried out for help, drawing criticism from netizens of victim-blaming.

On August 5, 2026, under continued media questioning, the pharmaceutical company involved confirmed that a boy in a gene-editing trial at Shanghai Children's Medical Center died in August 2025 from a serious adverse reaction, after the parties involved had concealed the information and not made it public.

In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.