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The Epoch Times

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The Epoch Times is a far-right[22] international multi-language newspaper and non-profit media company. It is part of the Falun Gong new religious movement.[23] The newspaper, based in New York City, is part of the Epoch Media Group, which also runs New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television. The Epoch Times has websites in 35 countries but is blocked in mainland China. It was started in Georgia in 2000. It attacks the Chinese Communist Party’s “massive crimes” and “attempts to eradicate all traditional morality and religious belief.” There is no content about drugs, gay people or popular music. It supports Donald Trump.[24]


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  1. ↑ Zeng, Jing; Schäfer, Mike S. (October 21, 2021). "Conceptualizing "Dark Platforms". Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab". Digital Journalism. 9 (9). Routledge: 1321–1343. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1938165. In contrast, Gab users who shared more far-right "fake news" websites are relatively more visible on Gab. Some of the most cited sources under this category include the Unhived Mind (N = 2,729), Epoch Times (N = 1,303), Natural News (N = 1,301), Breitbart (N = 769), the Gateway Pundit (N = 422), and InfoWars (N = 656).
  2. ↑ Zhang, Xinyi; Davis, Mark (7 June 2022). "E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right". New Media & Society. SAGE. doi:10.1177/14614448221098360. ISSN 1461-4448. S2CID 249482748. Archived from the original on October 1, 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022. Beyond US-based far-right news websites such as Breitbart, Infowars and Epoch Times, other alternative online media outlets include Australia-based XYZ and The Unshackled, Canada-based Rebel News and UK-based Politicalite.com and PoliticalUK.co.uk, just to name a few, which operate as far-right metapolitical channels and counter-publics that strive to influence mainstream culture and discourse (Holt, 2019).
  3. ↑ Bloom, Mia; Moskalenko, Sophia (8 September 2021). "January 6, 2021: Capitol Hill, the Failed Insurrection". Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon. Stanford University Press. doi:10.1515/9781503630611-003. ISBN 978-1-5036-3061-1. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022 – via De Gruyter. The 26-minute video featured a discredited scientist, Dr. Judy Mikovits, describing a secret plot by global elites like Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci to use the pandemic to profit and seize political power. Mikovits soon became a regular guest on far-right media channels, and she became the darling of far-right publications like The Epoch Times and Gateway Pundit.
  4. ↑ Kaiser, Jonas (2019). "In the heartland of climate scepticism: A hyperlink network analysis of German climate sceptics and the US right wing". In Forchtner, Bernard (ed.). The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication. Routledge. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-351-10402-9.
  5. ↑ Weisskircher, Manès (September 11, 2020). "Neue Wahrheiten von rechts außen? Alternative Nachrichten und der "Rechtspopulismus" in Deutschland" [New truths from the far-right? Alternative news and "right-wing populism" in Germany]. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (in German). 33 (2). De Gruyter: 474–490. doi:10.1515/fjsb-2020-0040. S2CID 222004415. In Deutschland existiert eine Vielzahl an alternativen Nachrichten-Plattformen von Rechtsaußen. Der Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019 nennt Junge Freiheit, Compact online, PI News und Epoch Times als Plattformen mit der häufigsten Nutzung (Newman 2019: 86). [In Germany there is a large number of alternative news platforms from the far-right. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019 names Junge Freiheit, Compact online, PI News and Epoch Times as the platforms with the most frequent use (Newman 2019: 86).]
  6. ↑ Hao, Karen (31 March 2021). "Deepfake "Amazon workers" are sowing confusion on Twitter. That's not the problem". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022. In fact there have already been several high-profile instances in which deepfake photos have been used in damaging disinformation campaigns. In December 2019, Facebook identified and took down a network of over 900 pages, groups, and accounts, including some with deepfaked profile pictures, associated with the far-right outlet the Epoch Times, which is known to engage in misinformation tactics.
  7. ↑ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (September 23, 2017). "The German Edition of Falun Gong's 'Epoch Times' Aligns with the Far Right". ChinaFile. Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. Archived from the original on October 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ Alba, Davey (May 9, 2020). "Virus Conspiracists Elevate a New Champion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  9. ↑ Hettena, Seth (September 17, 2019). "The Obscure Newspaper Fueling the Far-Right in Europe". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  10. ↑ Aspinwall, Nick (November 2, 2020). "Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon Are Flooding the Zone With Hunter Biden Conspiracies". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020. Many of the most potent claims have roots with anti-CCP and far-right actors, including the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times.
  11. ↑ Farhi, Paul (August 20, 2020). "A 'loud mouth' writer says the White House broke its own briefing-room rules. So he did the same". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 31, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020. Last week, McEnany admitted representatives from two far-right outfits, the Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times
  12. ↑ Aspinwall, Nick (November 6, 2020). "As Taiwan Watches US Election, It May Need Time to Trust a Biden Administration". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020. That's likely due in large part to the presence of influential Chinese-language far-right media on the island, such as the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times
  13. ↑ Newton, Casey (May 12, 2020). "How the 'Plandemic' video hoax went viral". The Verge. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020. ...it won approving coverage from far-right outlets including the Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, and Next News Network.
  14. ↑ Pressman, Aaron; Morris, David Z. (August 7, 2020). "This moon landing video is fake". Fortune. Archived from the original on February 23, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  15. ↑ Sommer, Will (October 19, 2019). "Bannon Teams Up With Chinese Group That Thinks Trump Will Bring on End-Times". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020. New Tang Dynasty is part of the Epoch Media Group, a collection of far-right media outlets linked to Falun Gong
  16. ↑ "The battle in miniature". The Economist. October 10, 2020. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2022. she got her news from the far-right One America News Network and Epoch Times, a pro-Trump newspaper produced by the Falun Gong sect that has spread the anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy.
  17. ↑ Callery, James; Goddard, Jacqui (August 23, 2021). "Most-clicked link on Facebook spread doubt about Covid vaccine". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on September 29, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2021. Facebook's data on the first quarter of this year shows that one of its most popular pages was an article by The Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper that has promoted QAnon conspiracy theories and misleading claims of voter fraud related to the 2020 US election.
  18. ↑ Waldman, Scott (August 27, 2021). "Climate denial newspaper flourishes on Facebook". E&E News. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2022. The Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper that echoes anti-vaccine messages and promoted former President Trump's false election claims, received 44.2 million views between April and June for a page that offers to sign up subscribers, according to a report released by Facebook last week.
  19. ↑ Paul, Kari (September 16, 2021). "Facebook steps up fight against climate misinformation – but critics say effort falls short". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2022. In 2021 June, one of the most-viewed sites on Facebook was a subscription page for the Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper known for climate denial.
  20. ↑ Rogers, Kaleigh (10 February 2022). "There Is More Than One Big Lie". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022. Brian Cates, a writer for the far-right publication The Epoch Times, was less morbid and more focused on the levers of power when he posted to his nearly 80,000 followers on Telegram earlier this week. "[W]hat happened on election night? Trump was surging to victory. They had to shut everything down and then spent THREE DAYS furiously ginning up enough fake votes to hand Biden the 'win' on Friday night."
  21. ↑ Perrone, Alessio; Loucaides, Darren (March 10, 2022). "A key source for Covid-skeptic movements, the Epoch Times yearns for a global audience". Coda Media. Archived from the original on March 13, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. But its shift to the far-right actually started in Europe when in 2015 refugees from the Middle East migrated to EU countries. It was then that the German edition of Epoch Times started to enjoy a steep rise in web traffic, coinciding with its coverage of the anti-migrant group Pegida and frequent interviews with politicians from the emerging right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.
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  23. ↑ "How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions". NBC News. 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  24. ↑ "Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times". NBC News. 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
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