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How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions

• jruohonen 3y ago
  "Today, The Epoch Times is one of the country’s most successful and influential conservative news organizations. It’s powered by Falun Gong, a religious group persecuted in China, which launched The Epoch Times as a free propaganda newsletter more than two decades ago to oppose the Chinese Communist Party." Enough said.
  • jinushaun 3y ago
    Ah yes, similar to Shen Yun. Come for the acrobatics, stay for the anti-PRC propaganda.
    • mcphage 3y ago
      I was not aware of that fact when my wife and I went to see a performance of Shen Yun, but wow. They hide it beforehand, but not once you're in there.
• sp332 3y ago
  They sent me a promo issue once. There were no ads. The articles were contiguous instead of being broken up across several pages, and they were written for long-form instead of always feeling like they were squeezed into too little space. Overall it was a very nice experience, aside from the authoritarian propaganda. Seriously, it is not subtle.
• cheaprentalyeti 3y ago
  They're conspiracy theorists, like the FBI. See this bit from CNN earlier this year... unless you think they're both a bunch of conspiracy theorists.[0] [0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origins-lab-china/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...
• throwaway4good 3y ago
  Promoted by the US to destabilize China / fight communism ultimately this covert poisonous apparatus ends up destabilizing the US itself. Cannot help to laugh at the irony unfortunately it is not the first time: The moonies / unification church is a parallel story.