Lee and Oli Barrett are a British father-son Youtuber duo based in Shenzhen, China.
[3] By July of the same year, Lee Barrett was working as a stringer for China Global Television Network (CGTN).
[4] Ellery and Knowles wrote that as the Barrets took stances firmer in support of the Chinese government, "the number of subscribers increased exponentially".
[1] Gray Sergeant, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, said it was difficult to trust anything the Barrett's were saying due to China's internet censorship laws.
"[3] Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat called vloggers like the Barrett's useful idiots who dictators have used to "whitewash their crimes and sadly the current rulers in Beijing are following the same playbook.”[1]