Trump, Qanon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times

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By the numbers, there is no bigger advocate of President Trump on Facebook than The Epoch Times. But despite its growing reach, little is publicly known about the precise ownership, origins or influences of the New York-based nonprofit news outlet.

. Among them, Li has railed against what he called the wickedness of homosexuality, feminism and popular music while holding that he is a god-like figure who can levitate and walk through walls.

Ben Hurley is a former Falun Gong practitioner who helped create Australia’s English version of The Epoch Times out of a living room in Sydney in 2005. Heabout his experience with the paper and described the early years as “a giant PR campaign” to evangelize about Falun Gong’s belief in an upcoming apocalypse in which those who think badly of the practice, or well of the Chinese Communist Party, will be destroyed.

This kind of coverage foreshadowed the news organization’s embrace of conspiracy theories like Qanon, the overarching theory that there is an evil cabal of “deep state” operators and child predators out to take down the president. Tiger Huang, a former Dragon Springs resident who was on a U.S. student visa from Taiwan, said she was set up on three dates on the compound, and she believed her ability to stay in the U.S. was tied to the arrangement.

As part of their orientation, the new reporters watched a video which laid out the Chinese persecution of Falun Gong followers. The publisher, Stephen Gregory, also spoke to the reporters about his vision for the new digital initiative. The former employees said Gregory’s talk framed The Epoch Times as an answer to the liberal mainstream media.

 

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Your own staff are religious, as are staff at every major media outlet, yet you choose to hypocritically attack this media outlet as if an individuals’ personal beliefs are a fit subject of inquiry? Especially when people who hold these beliefs are already subject to persecution?

Because they are real news

maddow tRUMP: CRITICAL THINKING: the other NATIONAL DEFICIT...

maddow Is it russian collusion again. Kind of burnt out on that one. maddowsucks

maddow this is frightening. really fucking frightening.

maddow Watching with my third eye!

maddow 🤦🏽‍♀️

'Warning Warning Will Robinson' says the Lost in Space Robot. Has Trump as he calls himself 'Our most favorite President' sold out to hostile foreign government? Oh I know that they were hostile up to the 44th President. But now that's Trump's Pres. we're buddies with them.

Epstein. I can see it. So can others. If your boss went, show him out. The conspiracy stuff is over. Prince Andrew already doomed the plan.

Russia.

The Epoch Times has spent more than $1.5 million on pro-Trump advertisements in the last 6 months — more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign. High engagement has made it a Trump family favorite and a key component of the president's re-election campaign. (2/8)

Hard to imagine what expects to get out of this beyond lots more eyeballs on Epoch Times. Such is the downside of desperation and catering to an increasingly shrinking market share.

By the numbers there is no bigger news organization than NBC & MSNBC that has been spewing hatred & Fakenews against President Trump realDonaldTrump But despite it's declining rating little is publicly known what's behind the origins or influences of this corrupt outlet

So...now that Russia Collusion has failed, you are targeting other member of the Press?

There is no bigger advocate of the Democrat party than NBC News. They have the sickest people on their network; Scarborough, Maddow, Wallace, etc. and their guests are sowing hate and division in this nation Recently lesterholt was in Iran and supported their propaganda.

NBC promoted Russian hoax for three years and got busted. EpochTimes actually got the story right. NBC just continuing disinformation campaign with this article

Qaanaaq Greenland too NBC ask Trump

Look at NBC siding with it's fellow totalitarians in China... again. It's pretty clear at this point that NBC is the enemy of the American people.

So you openly admit you do not report the news, but you have a bias against our President? I remember when I was a little girl, , was a reliable source of information. This post itself says you no longer do that. Sad.

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Probably Russia

That was off google

Dear god a 8 post tirade about how much NBC hates news sources more accurate and impartial than them. Go back to covering for Epstein and cheerleading for China.

Epoch Times multi-language newspaper headquartered New York City Company was founded in 2000 by John Tang & group of Chinese Americans associated with Falun Gong spiritual movementNewspaper covers general interest topics with a focus on news about China human rights issues there.

The Epoch Times has spent more than $1.5 million on pro-Trump advertisements in the last 6 months — more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign. High engagement has made it a Trump family favorite and a key component of the president's re-election campaign. (2/8)

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Deep State and Qanon: Made up weird crap by the aluminum industry to increase foil hat sales. It'd be funny if some of them folks weren't so dangerously crazy.

The ignorant and the stupid love conspiracy. It gives them the illusion of being “in the know”. It’s the childish game of “I know something you don’t know“. The irony is that the biggest conspiracy is the one they’re playing on themselves. Because they believe it.

Jealous? “The Epoch Times brought in $8.1 million in revenue in 2017 — double what it had the previous year — and reported spending $7.2 million on “printing newspaper and creating web and media programs. Most of its revenue comes from advertising and “web and media income,”

Lets go NBC start digging into Q anon.. I dare ya.. Come on report on msm ask who is Q!!

Didn’t know for sure that TheEpochTimes is representing FalunGong in the US and is supporting Trump that much.

EpochTimes Your Turn! 😈

'Newssource is a threat to our narrative. Must attack!'

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