{"id":156719,"date":"2026-08-28T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156719"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:58:16","slug":"how-the-nepal-flash-flood-unleashed-a-wave-of-anti-china-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156719","title":{"rendered":"How the Nepal flash flood unleashed a wave of anti-China misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTo scientists, the cause of this week\u2019s deadly flash flood on the border between China and Nepal is clear: a glacier high on the Nepal side of the Himalayan range collapsed, sending catastrophic amounts of water and debris downstream.<br \/>\nInitial uncertainty over the cause of the event fuelled a wave of misinformation on social media, some of which pinned the blame for the event on Chinese-built infrastructure in the region.<br \/>\nBut a war of information over China\u2019s activities in the region continued to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3365633\/how-nepal-flash-flood-unleashed-wave-anti-china-misinformation?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTo scientists, the cause of this week\u2019s deadly flash flood on the border between China and Nepal is clear: a glacier high on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}