Some of those Vietnamese language media outlets repeated false talking points, according to Long Bui, an international studies professor at UC Irvine who has written about Vietnamese American anticommunist work and intergenerational differences in relation to homeland politics. Those generational differences, he said, include belief in claims that China created the coronavirus to bring down Trump and a smear campaign message that implied Biden did not support refugee resettlement.

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