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Report: China’s CCTV drops LaLiga coverage over Mbappe comments

CCTV, the Chinese state broadcaster, has suspended its coverage of Spanish soccer's top-tier LaLiga, due to social media videos involving Kylian Mbappe, the Real Madrid and France superstar.

— Sportcal, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

33 outlets9 languages15 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Sportcal

EN · GB

Followed by

32

outlets in 9 languages over 1 d 5 h.

Our read

Corroborated (9)

9 of 15 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 6 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 15 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 33 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

33 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min
  2. +2 h 36 min
  3. +2 h 57 min
  4. +3 h 27 min
  5. +3 h 52 min

    LiberoES · PEOwn reporting

    China prohíbe los partidos de LaLiga por culpa de Kylian Mbappé y su meme de dictador

    Cites Josep Pedrerol, El Chiringuito

  6. +4 h 51 min
  7. +5 h 52 min
  8. +7 h 8 min
  9. +7 h 36 min
  10. +7 h 52 min
  11. +8 h 54 min
  12. +11 h
  13. +11 h 30 min
  14. +11 h 52 min
  15. +14 h 19 min
  16. +15 h 5 min
  17. +19 h 1 min
  18. +19 h 36 min
  19. +20 h 51 min
  20. +23 h 20 min
  21. +23 h 28 min
  22. +23 h 30 min
  23. +23 h 54 min
  24. +1 d
  25. +1 d
  26. +1 d
  27. +1 d
  28. +1 d 1 h
  29. +1 d 1 h

    Advanced TelevisionEN · GBOwn reporting

    LaLiga apologises to China

  30. +1 d 2 h
  31. +1 d 3 h
  32. +1 d 5 h
  33. +1 d 5 h

    Sky Sport ItaliaIT · ITOwn reporting

    Mbappé, il caso Cina e la multa al Barcellona

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.