‘Incredible!’; ABC Report, CNN’s Cooper Marvel at China’s Mass Surveillance State
By Nicholas Fondacaro | April 10, 2020 12:21 AM EDT
There was a disturbing trend that popped up on ABC’s World News Tonight and CNN’s latest coronavirus town hall Thursday night (the latter hosted by Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday). Both ABC and Cooper marveled in amazement at the mobilization communist China’s mass surveillance state to track their citizens and monitor for their coronavirus. Cooper seemed to go slack-jawed after hearing about a required tracking app and called it “incredible.â€
Cooper and Gupta were speaking with correspondent David Culver, who was in Shanghai and explained to them how he didn’t realize that Chinese officials were forcing him to get the app. Before Culver explained how the app was needed to go anywhere, Cooper briefly noted it was “incredibly detailed and personal and invasive.â€
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