{
  "id": 16745022,
  "title": "Football: Mbappé apologises for 'ill-judged' joke about China's Mao Zedong that led several brands to drop him",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/football-mbappe-apologises-for-ill-judged-joke-about-chinas-mao",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T12:02:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/football-chinese-sponsors-drop-mbappe-over-mao-zedong-joke"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The decision came after the clip spread on social media across China, where jokes about Mao, who died in 1976, are seen as disrespectful and touch on a sensitive political and national issue.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}