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Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire

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Tags: usa, china, politics, journalism, 2020 us presidential election, misinformation, epoch times, falun gong, author.kevin roose, source.the new york times, long read, paywall.soft
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html

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Title
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
Published
Oct 24 2020
Word count
3260 words

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  1. cfabbro
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    Relevant copypasta from an old comment of mine: It's kinda crazy the reach they have even in the "real"/physical world (see also: the New Yorker article on Shen Yun mentioned in this NYT one), so...

    Relevant copypasta from an old comment of mine:

    We recently had a similarly crazy "newspaper" appear in our letterbox too, from The Epoch Times (aka Falun Gong's propaganda outlet) trying to blame the Chinese for bio-engineering the coronavirus. See: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/epoch-times-coronavirus-bioweapon-1.5548217

    It's kinda crazy the reach they have even in the "real"/physical world (see also: the New Yorker article on Shen Yun mentioned in this NYT one), so I am totally not surprised they have even more influence online, where propaganda driven conspiracy theories runs even more rampant.

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