WASHINGTON : Chomping peacefully on a fruitsicle cake in her grassy Washington zoo enclosure Mei Xiang is blissfully unaware that she and a handful of other cute pandas are at the centre of a ferocious misinformation campaign driving anti-US sentiment in China. Evidence-free claims that pandas have been abused at US zoos have ricocheted across Chinese social media in recent months, fanning anti-American perceptions amid already fraught ties between Washington and Beijing. The falsehoods, which researchers say were amplified by clout-chasing influencers, have cast a shadow on Beijing's "panda diplomacy," the decades-old practice of gifting or loaning the bears to other countries as a token of friendship.

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