NBC News helped spread Chinese Communist Party propaganda in its coverage of the Beijing Olympics on Friday, including one reporter who reduced the Chinese government’s genocide of Uyghur minorities to “human rights issues.”

“It’s worth remembering that while Western countries may be boycotting these Olympics over human rights issues, China styles itself as a champion of the developing world and it has plenty of support in countries from Africa to Latin America where its investments have [built] up local economies,” one NBC News reporter said.

Josh Rogin, a Washington Post columnist and CNN political analyst, tweeted that NBC News also stated that western nations “allege…a systematic repression of Muslim Uyghurs.”