Businesses are shifting operations from downtown Portland, Oregon, or scuttling plans to open stores there because of the ...
www.theepochtimes.com
Expected... who would choose to keep their business in Portland or any of the fecklessly governed Democrat cities.
and you wonder why people think you're a biased idiot and a troll.
The Epoch Times is an international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the
Falun Gongnew religious movement, based in the United States.
[4][5][6] The newspaper is part of the
Epoch Media Group, which also operates
New Tang Dynasty(NTD) Television.
[7] The Epoch Times has websites in 35 countries
[8] but is blocked in
mainland China.
[8]
The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party.
[9] It is also known to promote
far-rightpoliticians in Europe,
[10][11] and backs President
Donald Trump in the U.S.; a 2019 report by NBC News showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign.
[12][13][14] The Epoch Media Group's news sites and
YouTube channels have spread
conspiracy theories such as
QAnon and
anti-vaccinationpropaganda.
[7][15][16] The organization frequently promotes other Falun Gong affiliated groups
The Epoch Times has championed President Donald Trump's
Spygate conspiracy theory in its news coverage and advertising, and the Epoch Media Group's
Edge of Wonder videos on YouTube have spread the far-right, pro-Trump
QAnon conspiracy theory.
[7]
An NBC News report found that two of
Edge of Wonder's hosts have been a creative director and chief photo editor at
The Epoch Times respectively. The newspaper promoted
Edge of Wonder videos in dozens of Facebook posts through 2019.
[7] The
Edge of Wonder hosts, according to
The Daily Dot, "embrace QAnon completely" even though "almost nothing QAnon has foretold has actually taken place."
[60]
During the February
2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses,
The Epoch Timesshared viral
disinformation from the conservative group
Judicial Watch that falsely alleged inflated voter rolls.
[61] The claim, which went viral on Facebook, was debunked by fact checkers and the Iowa secretary of state.
[62][63] A Harvard media expert quoted by NBC News said
The Epoch Times employed a "classic disinformation tactic" known as "
trading up the chain," in which false stories are repackaged and shared.
[61]
During a six-month period in 2019,
The Epoch Times spent more than $1.5 million on about 11,000 Facebook ads that NBC News said were "pro-Trump advertisements." NBC said the amount spent was more than any group except the Trump campaign itself.
[7][14] Political ad spending on Facebook in April 2019 through an account called "Coverage of the Trump Presidency by The Epoch Times" exceeded any politician's spending except Trump and Democrat
Joe Biden.
[13][67] Journalist
Judd Legum wrote in May 2019 that
The Epoch Times ads were "boosting Donald Trump and floating conspiracy theories about Joe Biden."
[13][67]
In August 2019,
Facebook banned
The Epoch Times from advertising on its platform, after finding that the newspaper broke Facebook's political transparency rules by publishing pro-Trump subscription ads through
sockpuppet pages such as "Honest Paper" and "Pure American Journalism."
[48][16] A Facebook representative told NBC: "Over the past year we removed accounts associated with
The Epoch Times for violating our ad policies, including trying to get around our review systems."
[48]
In October 2019, the fact-checking website
Snopes reported that
The Epoch Times is closely linked to a large network of Facebook pages and groups called
The BL (
The Beauty of Life) that shares pro-Trump views and conspiracy theories such as
QAnon.
The BL has spent at least $510,698 on Facebook advertising. Hundreds of the ads were removed for violations of Facebook's advertising rules. The
BL network of pages has 28 million followers on Facebook in total, according to
Snopes. The editor-in-chief of
The BLrecently worked as editor-in-chief of
The Epoch Times, and several other
BLemployees are listed as current or former employees of
The Epoch Times.
The BL is registered in
Middletown,
New York, to an address that also is registered to Falun Gong's
Sound of Hope Radio Network and is associated with the YouTube series
Beyond Science, but Snopes found "the outlet as a whole is literally the English-language edition of
Epoch Times Vietnam."
[68][69] Snopes found that
The BL uses more than 300 fake Facebook profiles based in Vietnam and other countries, using names, stock photos and celebrity photos in their profiles to emulate Americans, to administer more than 150 pro-Trump Facebook groups amplifying its content.
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