In the past year, I've written occasionally about the strange online drama that swirled around the giant pandas that recently lived at the Memphis Zoo. This article sheds a little more light on that controversy, and tells us, as I suspected, that the controversy had a lot more to do with geopolitical tension and social media attention than it ever had to do about animal welfare. Troll armies are one of the things that they never prepared us for when I first started working in zoos.
Panda exchange program targeted by misinformation, driving anti-US narratives in China
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