The small nonprofit news outlet has spent more than $1.5 million on about 11,000 pro-Trump advertisements in the last six months, more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign itself.
In 1999, after thousands of Li's followers gathered in front of President Jiang Zemin's compound to quietly protest the arrest of several Falun Gong members, authorities in China banned Falun Gong, closing teaching centers and arresting Falun Gong organizers and practitioners who refused to give up the practice. Human rights groups have reported some adherents being tortured and killed while in custody.
In 2005, The Epoch Times released its greatest salvo, publishing the ''Nine Commentaries, " a widely distributed book-length series of anonymous editorials that it claimed exposed the Chinese Communist Party's "massive crimes" and "attempts to eradicate all traditional morality and religious belief."from a White House event for Chinese President Hu Jintao after interrupting the ceremony by shouting for several minutes that then-President George W.
Hurley, who wrote for The Epoch Times until he left in 2013, said he saw practitioners in leadership positions begin drawing harder and harder lines about acceptable political positions. 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.
They said that life in Dragon Springs is tightly controlled by Li, that internet access is restricted, the use of medicines is discouraged, and arranged relationships are common. Two former residents on visas said they were offered to be set up with U.S. residents at the compound. Huang said she was told by Dragon Springs officials her visa had expired and was told to go back to Taiwan after months of dating a nonpractitioner in the compound. She later learned that her visa had not expired when she was told to leave the country.By 2016, The Epoch Times Group appeared to have heeded the call from Li to run its operation more like a typical news organization, starting with The Epoch Times' website. In March, the company placed job ads on the site Indeed.
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