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SCMP still publishes a lot of anti CCP articles and is banned in China.

The post doesn't contain much in terms of commentary, but it does include a quote describing this as a "psychological warfare tactic", so it doesn't seem to be that biased yet.

Very much untrue, CCTV, People's Daily, Global Times, now those are CCP mouthpieces.

That being said, one is not being unreasonable to suspect their level of editorial independence could be influenced.

The "whataboutism" of naming other media outlets doesn't really help your argument here.

You only just have to open the SCMP front page to find them calling military deployments in a stadium near Hong Kong "drills", citing anonymous sources that say "they are not of concern" and quoting liberally from anonymous posters on Chinese message boards spouting hate.

I just did and I couldn't find the thing you mentioned, mind to share the link?