'Western media did not report me fairly'

CGTN Europe

American pawn shop owner and TikTok vlogger Evan Kail said Western media twisted his story and never made corrections or conducted follow-up reporting.

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00:00see with what happened with me. People, once this thing that I staged the whole thing,

00:05and it was this big evil hoax of me using a war crime to get famous, that's what made the

00:09whole story go into hyperdrive. It wasn't the story itself, it was the negative slander,

00:14at least in America it was. And again, case in point, when I donated that photo album,

00:18I had so many articles from major mainstream media in the West written about me, speculating my

00:23intentions, calling me a bad, you know, just going with this negative thing. But when it,

00:28you know, when I was able to say, hey, no, you guys, look, you got it wrong. This isn't what

00:32happened. You all ran with this fake thing. I donated the book. I got this diplomatic gift.

00:36This is a really happy, positive conclusion. Crickets. Nobody in the West reported on the

00:42follow up. If you Google my name on American or on American internet, it still looks like I used

00:47war crime to get famous. And it's so with the media, again, negativity is what sells.

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