Vicky Xu, a Chinese researcher and journalist in Australia known for her reporting on the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, has blamed agents acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for releasing a video online about her in an attempt to smear her reputation. Xu has not been accepting media interview requests but has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions recently to set the record straight and expose the CCP’s online disinformation efforts. “It seems some are under the impression that there exists a fake sex tape of me made by the Chinese government,” she wrote on April 6. “This is false, as far as I’m aware anyway. What they made was a YouTube video that told fictional stories about my [ex-boyfriends], now taken down. What a time to be alive.” She continued, switching to Chinese to tell Chinese netizens not to search for the video. “This …