There was only one problem: The New Yorker article, by the comedian Andy Borowitz, was satire. “This is illness,” one user wrote about Mr. Trump on Weibo, a microblogging site. (The New Yorker article said that Mr. Bezos had purchased the newspaper by clicking on it by mistake. The newspaper removed the story from its website on Wednesday after the Chinese news media reported that it was false. Fake news articles, conspiracy theories and rumors are rampant on the Chinese internet, and media analysts say it is not surprising that Chinese outlets fall victim to jokes.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2017 13:23 UTC