https://newsbeezer.com/argentinaeng/unusual-official-chinese-television-has-invented-a-fake-french-journalist-defending-the-regime-against-allegations-of-genocide-against-the-uyghurs/

Apparently, CGTN quoted “Laurène Beaumond”, a French journalist, which is alleged to not exist. It’s currently the top post of /r/worldnews and people are eating it up. I find it fishy though: it has no sources and no links to the actual CGTN “propaganda”, so from the article alone there’s no way to know if the CGTN even mentioned said journalist.

Does anyone have any information about this? It was also reported by RFI (not to be confused with Radio Free Asia) and La Monde, but I don’t speak French so I can’t effectively go looking for their articles (which, again, would have been nice if they linked to their damn sources). Does anyone know of a journalist by that name, or the actual CGTN reporting that mentioned them? Or even the French reports that this article was based off?

Right now, my thought is that this is either just fake or severely out of context. Still, anyone know anything about this?