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

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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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