totally second this 说实话美国正常生活工作的普通人跟法轮功也没交集，有critical thinking的都会有自己的立场，对ccp和法轮功都不会恨的要赶尽杀绝的样子，所以态度特别激烈的不是拿了钱就是。。。咳咳我就不说了。反正那些上来就name calling的不管哪边就是带节奏了 ecko 发表于 2020-10-24 19:12
回复 86楼fmdou的帖子 How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire. Video
Adam Ferriss By Kevin Roose For years, The Epoch Times was a small, low-budget newspaper with an anti-China slant that was handed out free on New York street corners. But in 2016 and 2017, the paper made two changes that transformed it into one of the country’s most powerful digital publishers. The changes also paved the way for the publication, which is affiliated with the secretive and relatively obscureChinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, to become a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation. First, it embraced President Trump, treating him as an ally in Falun Gong’s scorched-earth fight against China’s ruling Communist Party, which banned the group two decades ago and has persecuted its members ever since. Its relatively staid coverage of U.S. politics became more partisan, with more articles explicitly supporting Mr. Trump and criticizing his opponents. Around the same time, The Epoch Times bet big on another powerful American institution: Facebook. The publication and its affiliates employed a novel strategy that involved creating dozens of Facebook pages, filling them with feel-good videos and viral clickbait, and using them to sell subscriptions and drive traffic back to its partisan news coverage. In an April 2017 email to the staff obtained by The New York Times, the paper’s leadership envisioned that the Facebook strategy could help turn The Epoch Times into “the world’s largest and most authoritative media.” It could also introduce millions of people to the teachings of Falun Gong, fulfilling the group’s mission of “saving sentient beings.” Today, The Epoch Times and its affiliates are a force in right-wing media, with tens of millions of social media followers spread across dozens of pages and an online audience that rivals those of The Daily Caller and Breitbart News, and with a similar willingness to feed the online fever swamps of the far right. It also has growing influence in Mr. Trump’s inner circle. The president and his family have shared articles from the paper on social media, and Trump administration officials have sat for interviews with its reporters. In August, a reporter from The Epoch Times asked a question at a White House press briefing. It is a remarkable success story for Falun Gong, which has long struggled to establish its bona fides against Beijing’s efforts to demonize it as an “evil cult,” partly because its strident accounts of persecution in China can sometimes be difficult to substantiate or veer into exaggeration. In 2006, an Epoch Times reporter disrupted a White House visit by the Chinese president by shouting, “Evil people will die early.” Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s former chief strategist and a former chairman of Breitbart, said in an interview in July that The Epoch Times’s fast growth had impressed him. “They’ll be the top conservative news site in two years,” said Mr. Bannon, who was arrested on fraud charges in August. “They punch way above their weight, they have the readers, and they’re going to be a force to be reckoned with.”
Image A 2018 gathering in Taiwan for practitioners of Falun Gong, which backs The Epoch Times.Credit... David Chang/EPA, via Shutterstock But the organization and its affiliates have grown, in part, by relying on sketchy social media tactics, pushing dangerous conspiracy theories and downplaying their connection to Falun Gong, an investigation by The Times has found. The investigation included interviews with more than a dozen former Epoch Times employees, as well as internal documents and tax filings. Many of these people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation, or still had family in Falun Gong. Embracing Mr. Trump and Facebook has made The Epoch Times a partisan powerhouse. But it has also created a global-scale misinformation machine that has repeatedly pushed fringe narratives into the mainstream. The publication has been one of the most prominent promoters of “Spygate,” a baseless conspiracy theory involving claims that Obama administration officials illegally spied on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. Publications and shows linked to The Epoch Times have promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory and spread distorted claims about voter fraud and the Black Lives Matter movement. More recently, they have promoted the unfounded theory that the coronavirus — which the publication calls the “CCP Virus,” in an attempt to link it to the Chinese Communist Party — was created as a bioweapon in a Chinese military lab. The Epoch Times says it is independent and nonpartisan, and it rejects the suggestion that it is officially affiliated with Falun Gong. Like Falun Gong itself, the newspaper — which publishes in dozens of countries — is decentralized and operates as a cluster of regional chapters, each organized as a separate nonprofit. It is also extraordinarily secretive. Editors at The Epoch Times turned down multiple requests for interviews, and a reporter’s unannounced visit to the outlet’s Manhattan headquarters this year was met with a threat from a lawyer. Representatives for Li Hongzhi, the leader of Falun Gong, did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did other residents of Dragon Springs, the compound in upstate New York that serves as Falun Gong’s spiritual headquarters. Many employees and Falun Gong practitioners contacted by The Times said they were instructed not to divulge details of the outlet’s inner workings. They said they had been told that speaking negatively about The Epoch Times would be tantamount to disobeying Mr. Li, who is known by his disciples as “Master.”
Image Falun Gong’s Dragon Springs compound in Otisville, N.Y.Credit... Julie Jacobson/Associated Press The Epoch Times provided only partial answers to a long list of questions sent to its media office, and declined to answer questions about its finances and editorial strategy. In an email, which was not signed, the outlet accused The Times of “defaming and diminishing a competitor” and displaying “a subtle form of religious intimidation if not bigotry” by linking the publication to Falun Gong. “The Epoch Times will not be intimidated and will not be silenced,” the outlet added, “and based on the number of falsehoods and inaccuracies included in the New York Times questions we will consider all legal options in response.” Clarifying the Truth Falun Gong, which Mr. Li introduced in China in 1992, revolves around a series of five meditation exercises and a process of moral self-improvement that is meant to lead to spiritual enlightenment. Today, the group is known for the demonstrations it holds around the world to “clarify the truth” about the Chinese Communist Party, which it accuses of torturing Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting the organs of those executed. (Tens of thousands across China were sent to labor camps in the early years of the crackdown, and the group’s presence there is now much diminished.) More recently, Falun Gong has come under scrutiny for what some former practitioners have characterized as an extreme belief system that forbids interracial marriage, condemns homosexuality and discourages the use of modern medicine, all allegations the group denies. When The Epoch Times got its start in 2000, the goal was to counter Chinese propaganda and cover Falun Gong’s persecution by the Chinese government. It began as a Chinese-language newspaper run out of the Georgia basement of John Tang, a graduate student and Falun Gong practitioner. By 2004, The Epoch Times had expanded into English. One of the paper’s early hires was Genevieve Belmaker, then a 27-year-old Falun Gong practitioner with little journalism experience. Ms. Belmaker, now 43, described the early Epoch Times as a cross between a scrappy media start-up and a zealous church bulletin, with a staff composed mostly of unpaid volunteers drawn from the local Falun Gong chapters. “The mission-driven part of it was, let’s have a media outlet that not only tells the truth about Falun Gong but about everything,” Ms. Belmaker said.
Image Falun Gong’s leader, Li Hongzhi, in 1999. He has referred to The Epoch Times and other outlets as “our media.”Credit... Henry Abrams/Agence France-Presse, via Getty Images Mr. Li, Falun Gong’s founder, also saw it that way. In speeches, he referred to The Epoch Times and other Falun Gong-linked outlets — including the New Tang Dynasty TV station, or NTD — as “our media,” and said they could help publicize Falun Gong’s story and values around the world. Two former employees recalled that the paper’s top editors had traveled to Dragon Springs to meet with Mr. Li. One employee who attended a meeting said Mr. Li had weighed in on editorial and strategic decisions, acting as a kind of shadow publisher. The Epoch Times denied these accounts, saying in a statement, “There has been no such meeting.” The line between The Epoch Times and Falun Gong is blurry at times. Two former Epoch Times reporters said they had been asked to write flattering profiles of foreign performers being recruited into Shen Yun, the heavily advertised dance performance series that Falun Gong backs, because it would strengthen those performers’ visa applications. Another former Epoch Times reporter recalled being assigned to write critical articles about politicians including John Liu, a Taiwanese-American former New York City councilman whom the group viewed as soft on China and hostile to Falun Gong. These articles helped Falun Gong advance its goals, but they lured few subscribers. Matthew K. Tullar, a former sales director for The Epoch Times’s Orange County edition in New York, wrote on his LinkedIn page that his team initially “printed 800 papers each week, had no subscribers, and utilized a ‘throw it in their driveway for free’ marketing strategy.” Mr. Tullar did not respond to requests for comment. Ms. Belmaker, who left the paper in 2017, described it as a bare-bones operation that was always searching for new moneymaking ventures. “It was very short-term thinking,” she said. “We weren’t looking more than three weeks down the road.” A Trump Pivot By 2014, The Epoch Times was edging closer to Mr. Li’s vision of a respectable news outlet. Subscriptions were growing, the paper’s reporting was winning journalism awards, and its finances were stabilizing. “There was all this optimism that things were going to level up,” Ms. Belmaker said. But at a staff meeting in 2015, leadership announced that the publication was in trouble again, Ms. Belmaker recalled. Facebook had changed its algorithm for determining which articles appeared in users’ newsfeeds, and The Epoch Times’s traffic and ad revenue were suffering. In response, the publication assigned reporters to churn out as many as five posts a day in a search for viral hits, often lowbrow fare with titles like “Grizzly Bear Does Belly Flop Into a Swimming Pool.” “It was a competition for traffic,” Ms. Belmaker said.
Genevieve Belmaker, who worked at The Epoch Times for 13 years, said she had seen it go from a bare-bones operation to a driver of online traffic.Credit... Kyle Johnson for The New York Times As the 2016 election neared, reporters noticed that the paper’s political coverage took on a more partisan tone. Steve Klett, who covered the 2016 campaign for the paper, said his editors had encouraged favorable coverage about Mr. Trump after he won the Republican nomination. “They seemed to have this almost messianic way of viewing Trump as the anti-Communist leader who would bring about the end of the Chinese Communist Party,” Mr. Klett said. After Mr. Trump’s victory, The Epoch Times hired Brendan Steinhauser, a well-connected Tea Party strategist, to help make inroads with conservatives. Mr. Steinhauser said the organization’s goal, beyond raising its profile in Washington, had been to make Falun Gong’s persecution a Trump administration priority. “They wanted more people in Washington to be aware of how the Chinese Communist Party operates, and what it has done to spiritual and ethnic minorities,” Mr. Steinhauser said. All In on Facebook Behind the scenes, The Epoch Times was also developing a secret weapon: a Facebook growth strategy that would ultimately help take its message to millions. According to emails reviewed by The Times, the Facebook plan was developed by Trung Vu, the former head of The Epoch Times’s Vietnamese edition, known as Dai Ky Nguyen, or DKN. In Vietnam, Mr. Trung’s strategy involved filling a network of Facebook pages with viral videos and pro-Trump propaganda, some of it lifted word for word from other sites, and using automated software, or bots, to generate fake likes and shares, a former DKN employee said. Employees used fake accounts to run the pages, a practice that violated Facebook’s rules but that Mr. Trung said was necessary to protect employees from Chinese surveillance, the former employee said. Mr. Trung did not respond to requests for comment. According to the 2017 email sent to Epoch Times workers in America, the Vietnamese experiment was a “remarkable success” that made DKN one of the largest publishers in Vietnam. The outlet, the email claimed, was “having a profound impact on saving sentient beings in that country.” The Vietnamese team was asked to help Epoch Media Group — the umbrella organization for Falun Gong’s biggest U.S. media properties — set up its own Facebook empire, according to that email. That year, dozens of new Facebook pages appeared, all linked to The Epoch Times and its affiliates. Some were explicitly partisan, others positioned themselves as sources of real and unbiased news, and a few, like a humor page called “Funniest Family Moments,” were disconnected from news entirely.
A screenshot of America Daily, a right-wing politics site that an Epoch Times editor helped start. Perhaps the most audacious experiment was a new right-wing politics site called America Daily. Today, the site, which has more than a million Facebook followers, peddles far-right misinformation. It has posted anti-vaccine screeds, an article falsely claiming that Bill Gates and other elites are “directing” the Covid-19 pandemic and allegations about a “Jewish mob” that controls the world. Emails obtained by The Times show that John Nania, a longtime Epoch Times editor, was involved in starting America Daily, along with executives from Sound of Hope, a Falun Gong-affiliated radio network. Records on Facebook show that the page is operated by the Sound of Hope Network, and a pinned post on its Facebook page contains a promotional video for Falun Gong. In a statement, The Epoch Times said it had “no business relationship” with America Daily. Many of the Facebook pages operated by The Epoch Times and its affiliates followed a similar trajectory. They began by posting viral videos and uplifting news articles aggregated from other sites. They grew quickly, sometimes adding hundreds of thousands of followers a week. Then, they were used to steer people to buy Epoch Times subscriptions and promote more partisan content. Several of the pages gained significant followings “seemingly overnight,” said Renee DiResta, a disinformation researcher with the Stanford Internet Observatory. Many posts were shared thousands of times but received almost no comments — a ratio, Ms. DiResta said, that is typical of pages that have been boosted by “click farms,” firms that generate fake traffic by paying people to click on certain links over and over again. The Epoch Times denies using click farms or other illicit tactics to expand its pages. “The Epoch Times’s social media strategies were different from DKN, and used Facebook’s own promotional tools to gain an increased organic following,” the outlet said, adding that The Epoch Times cut ties with Mr. Trung in 2018. But last year, The Epoch Times was barred from advertising on Facebook — where it had spent more than $1.5 million over seven months — after the social network announced that the outlet’s pages had evaded its transparency requirements by disguising its ad purchases. This year, Facebook took down more than 500 pages and accounts linked to Truth Media, a network of anti-China pages that had been using fake accounts to amplify their messages. The Epoch Times denied any involvement, but Facebook’s investigators said Truth Media “showed some links to on-platform activity by Epoch Media Group and NTD.” “We’ve taken enforcement actions against Epoch Media and related groups several times,” said a Facebook spokeswoman, who added that the social network would punish the outlet if it violated more rules in the future. Since being barred from advertising on Facebook, The Epoch Times has moved much of its operation to YouTube, where it has spent more than $1.8 million on ads since May 2018, according to Google’s public database of political advertising. Where the paper’s money comes from is something of a mystery. Former employees said they had been told that The Epoch Times was financed by a combination of subscriptions, ads and donations from wealthy Falun Gong practitioners. In 2018, the most recent year for which the organization’s tax returns are publicly available, The Epoch Times Association received several sizable donations, but none big enough to pay for a multimillion-dollar ad blitz. Mr. Bannon is among those who have noticed The Epoch Times’s deep pockets. Last year, he produced a documentary about China with NTD. When he talked with the outlet about other projects, he said, money never seemed to be an issue. “I’d give them a number,” Mr. Bannon said. “And they’d come back and say, ‘We’re good for that number.’” ‘The Moral Objective Is Gone’ The Epoch Times’s pro-Trump turn has upset some former employees, like Ms. Belmaker. Ms. Belmaker, now a freelance writer and editor, still believes in many of Falun Gong’s teachings, she said. But she has grown disenchanted with The Epoch Times, which she sees as running contrary to Falun Gong’s core principles of truth, compassion and tolerance. “The moral objective is gone,” she said. “They’re on the wrong side of history, and I don’t think they care.” Recently, The Epoch Times has shifted its focus to the coronavirus. It pounced on China’s missteps in the early days of the pandemic, and its reporters wrote about misreported virus statistics and Chinese influence in the World Health Organization. A screenshot of an Epoch Times video, “Digging Beneath Narratives,” on YouTube.
Some of these articles were true. But others pushed exaggerated or false claims, like the unproven theory that the virus was engineered in a lab as part of a Chinese biological warfare strategy. Some of the claims were repeated in a documentary that both NTD and The Epoch Times posted on YouTube, where it has been viewed more than five million times. The documentary features the discredited virologist Judy Mikovits, who also starred in the viral “Plandemic” video, which Facebook, YouTube and other social platforms pulled this year for spreading false claims. The Epoch Times said, “In our documentary we offered a range of evidence and viewpoints without drawing any conclusions.” Ms. Belmaker, who still keeps a photo of Master Li on a shelf in her house, said she recoiled whenever an ad for The Epoch Times popped up on YouTube promoting some new partisan talking point. One recent video, “Digging Beneath Narratives,” is a two-minute infomercial about China’s mishandling of the coronavirus. The ad’s host says The Epoch Times has an “underground network of sources” in China providing information about the government’s response to the virus. It’s a plausible claim, but the video’s host makes no mention of The Epoch Times’s ties to Falun Gong, or its two-decade-long campaign against Chinese communism, saying only that the paper is “giving you an accurate picture of what’s happening in this world.” “We tell it like it is,” he says.
轮子一只，拍照留念。 特征：直接上来否定一切的喷
“做大到nyt需要报道了”。你是说“恶心到nyt需要报道了”了吧
对啊，干扰大选不是小事呢。大可及叛国罪
你相信了他们的谎言啊
原来那一位是轮子啊，那就都能说通了
好多极右翼都要政教合一。美国再给右逼4年真的要违背founding fathers的理念了。那个新法官候选人就做过很多宗教讲座
轮子只读微信
那一旦被发现干扰大选不就是间谍罪了吗
轮子觉得美国报道点啥不利于川总的新闻都是中共干的，敢情他们觉得中共的能耐无比巨大啊
你从来不看的是吧？你以为它在乎你的想法？
以后记住了：喊5毛大外宣的8成是轮子
但是大纪元还有锅某某这种辣眼睛辣耳朵的存在
还是早日归天的好
实在有碍观瞻
你看看前几楼你们川粉还说民主党和ccp是一气的呢，晕。请轮子内部统一点口径好吗？
连twitter也只看中文的
是的是的
轮子实在是恶心过头了
连土工的光环也被他们占去了
基于事实基础的个人观点表达不是很正常的新闻评论言论自由吗？这跟捏造事实完全两码事懂吗？这个严重了可以定罪的。少装逼了
原来是文盲
是的
纽时评论区里很多亚裔在发言
其中一个说 即使flg推翻tg拿下政权 也不会比tg好去哪里
问题是flg很有隐蔽和欺骗性。我周围就有老美同事每年都去看神韵，觉得很艺术，又同情他们 flg是Facebook上第三大political广告主，想想这是什么规模 大选刚启动的时候，youtube上就开始他们的广告，一个男的，扯一个话题，说点似是而非的话，然后推广epoch time，乍一看还挺legit的。 不管它的宗教性质，做为一个民间团体，又牵扯国际背景，干涉大选，干涉美国政治到这种程度，美国政府再不管不问就太naive了
😄
是的 这家伙 快点滚出地球吧
整天捣腾不知道什么有碍观瞻的事情 烦死了
me 2
我周边的老美同事都知道神韵是个什么组织了
是的 有过之而无不及
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click farm还是个越南人搞的
某国/省还真tm是个骗子辈出的土地
哈哈哈😄
ccp真是牛
哈哈哈哈哈😂
我被骂五毛好几回了
每次去中领馆都要看到他们雇佣的示威者
也很烦的 好不好
祸害美国大选这件事比杀人更可怕
太爱这个比喻了
nyt还称其为pivot
对哦 上次我说想吃苏式的面
大纪元的id们都让我速速滚回国
好笑不好笑
都是alternate facts的创造者
谢解惑
谢解惑 怪不得都脏的差不多
是啊，太恶心了，还说：世子
说这话的真是有毛病，国家是国家，个人是个人。 父母亲情都可以随便割舍的人脑子真不是一般的进水了
同意，无毛太多了。搞得乌烟瘴气的。法轮功的经费再多，还能有无毛的多？ 无毛的经费可都是民脂民膏。想想六亿人口，这么浪费人民的血汗钱简直太无耻
就是啊。蓬皮奥一直说把ccp跟中国人分开的，啥时候蓬皮奥也成轮子了。凡是支持现总统的都是轮子，这不是带风向是什么
又是轮子又是智商的，把自己定位得很高大，帽子扣的像扔飞盘似的
但是，言论自由，新闻自由，宗教自由，这是美国宪法保护的，财大气粗也不可以诋毁对方，声音大根基深也不代表真理。也不可以扼杀小媒体。各种不同的角度发声，百花齐放、百家争鸣，可以给普通人不同的角度看事情，自己来评判是非对错。而一家独大，封锁和自己意见不同的人，搞舆论压制、管控和封锁，很不正常，脱离了民主的基本原则。像纽约时报这样在一个民主国家的发展壮大的媒体应该懂得民主自由的精髓，自己成为媒体警察也是堕落。
不能一杆子打死一船人，是自认日本人的绿色湾湾, 只有他们才能和轮子low到一块儿去。
之前几个月鲜花上不是动不动就有帖子，不是跟国内父母兄弟渐行渐远，意识形态，无话可说，就国内的亲戚朋友各种叫嚣战狼捧CCP臭脚，不得不断绝往来。一句话，跟国内只能切割一切关系，这些都是典型的轮子行为。我有亲戚就在国内练法轮功，真的是六亲不认，所有人都是妨碍她修炼修行的阻碍，就算亲妈病危了也照样不管不顾。
一个社会只有一种轮子才是最可怕的，哪怕伟光正时间超过60%。
成天盼着这只轮子完了，那只轮子完了，政治幼稚而已。
纽约上州有个莊严寺，真正的佛教寺院。
这帮邪教就是政治斗争下的蛆虫，脑子清醒一点的应政府该把他们合理赶出地球。当然如果脑子清醒了，过去这几个月也不会这么灾难
川普是川太阳，中共被轮子川粉说的跟黑洞那么大
这个比喻不恰当，他们小脑壳里黑洞才多大,
轮子的确臭不可闻
问题是川粉们还跟他们搅和在一起，同流合污
比较左派的法国媒体突然发现《纽约时报》左得无法接受， 因为这是《纽约时报》就老师被斩首的恐怖袭击写的文章标题：“在大街上发生了致命的持刀袭击后法国警察击毙了男子。”
你练什么是左都分不清还出来丢人显眼 说实话就左了？你川主一口一个chinese virus 你们舔的比谁都欢
肯定要比TG差1万倍，想想他们会怎么对付疫情？根本就是不隔离不吃药坐着转轮子等死啊，太恐怖 CCP虽然没有啥言论自由，但科学态度经济发展都是挺靠谱的，比trump还靠谱
没准人家又迅速转舔民主党了 参见16年的小英
我倒觉得川普应该亲算他们，就他们把川普带沟里去的
主要是这帮人素质实在太低了，一群没念过两天书，就会转轮子的废物，他们能干成什么事啊？没几天大家都能认出来他们的真面目。 有一次我们全家在中国超市买完菜，晚上九点多，正在往后备箱装菜，帮小孩上car seat，黑咕隆咚的，突然冒出来一个老太太，先是说你们家小孩子真可爱啊，我们说谢谢。接着她说，你们是共产党员吗？我们没理她。她就接着说，当年我怀孕的时候，他们共产党员踢我肚子，布拉布拉还在继续说。我们就上车走了。我心想，正常人有这种黑咕隆咚的，突然跑到陌生人面前说这些有的没的吗？
不论哪个党都不可以乱搞。这就是为什么人们要捍卫民主，捍卫言论自由，捍卫出版集会自由。但是如果有切实的违法证据，也是有法律部门追责处罚。如果民主党上台了成为一个恐吓，这也说明了很多问题
Trump被人耍又不是一次了。他下台了估计忙着转移财产申请第七次破产呢。
言论自由和胡扯造谣不是一回事
You mean it came from your ancestors?
所你你们狂热川粉为chinese plague 跟kung flu 卖力洗地？
轮子 跟川粉五毛是一路货色
那你知道曾经那场席卷全世界的Spanish Flu实际上是起源于美国的Kansas吗
轮子搞不清楚言论自由和造谣的区别。
估计也不知道fact和opnion的区别吧。
轮子书读的太少了是硬伤。
与他意见向左的可不都是大外宣嘛
所以你的结论是土工还不够流氓，应该跟轮子一样再无耻一些？
这已经是国际共识了
这么问的只有轮子和某些最近跟轮子穿一条裤子的川粉
笑死我了LOL
Times不是New York Times. 这都不知道，想泼污水也要多学习提高自身素质先
主流媒体倒台了靠黄皮右逼微信造谣？右逼真是智商有硬伤
得新冠或者被抓了吧？16年天天造谣是该受报应的