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John Tang immigrated to the US from China in 1993 following the horrific events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. He was horrified by the communist regime's cruelty and deceit towards its own people. As a young doctoral candidate, he was deeply impacted by the freedoms afforded to the American people.[1]

It was not until 1999 when China started persecuting followers of the spiritual meditation practice of Falun Dafa or Falun Gong, which Tang also followed, that he realized American media outlets were rehashing misinformation that was being spread by Chinese Communist Party leaders. He was saddened to see mainstream media in the United States repeating Chinese propaganda and disinformation from Chinese Communist Party leaders. In response, Tang founded The Epoch Times, whose motto is Truth and tradition. He was determined to counter propaganda from the Chinese government, provide factual information, and defend persecuted practitioners of Falun Gong.[2] The Epoch Times has since become a multinational news source in 21 languages available in 35 different countries.[3]

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John Tang was born in China, and immigrated to the United States in 1993. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in which the Chinese government brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations, deeply influenced his political and philosophical outlook. His desire for freedom led him to pursue higher education in the U.S., where he enrolled as a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology to study physics. Two years after he had arrived in the U.S., he was introduced to Falun Gong by a friend, and became a follower of the practice, having been influenced by its principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.[1] ... Read more

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The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 by John Tang and other Chinese Americans affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.[4] Tang was a graduate student in Georgia at the time; he began the newspaper in his basement.[5] The founders said they were responding to censorship inside China and a lack of international understanding about the Chinese government's repression of Falun Gong.[6][7]

By 2003, The Epoch Times website and group of newspapers had grown into one of the largest Chinese-language news sites and newspaper groups outside China, with local editions in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and major Western European countries.[8] The first English edition launched online in September 2003, followed by the first print edition in 2004.[9] The English Australian edition was launched in Sydney in 2005.[10]

Nick Couldry and James Curran wrote in 2003 that the paper represents a "major step in the evolution of Falun Gong-related alternative media" and may be part of a de facto media alliance with democracy activists in exile.[11] In 2003, sociologist Yuezhi Zhao wrote that the paper "displays an indisputable ideological and organizational affinity with Falun Gong" and that it strongly emphasizes negative portrayals of the Chinese government and positive portrayals of Falun Gong. Per Zhao, Epoch portrays itself as neutral, independent, and public-interest oriented.[8]

In 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that "three new U.S.-based, Chinese-language media outlets that provide provocative reporting about the Communist Party, government oppression and social unrest in China (namely The Epoch Times, Sound of Hope, and NTDTV) have ties to the Falun Gong spiritual movement". When interviewed, executives at each outlet claimed they did not represent the Falun Gong movement as a whole. Associated Press reporter Nahal Toosi wrote ... Read more


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  1. ^ a b "What is the relationship between The Epoch Times and Falun Gong?". The Epoch Times. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  2. ^ Gregory, Stephen (2019-08-27). "NBC News Smears a Competitor". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  3. ^ Wright, Rose (2020-09-29). "Newspaper Office Opens in Irvine – SouthCoast Magazine". SouthCoast Magazine – Constant Recreation. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Roose, Kevin (October 24, 2020). "How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  6. ^ Thomas Lum (August 11, 2006). "China and Falun Gong" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 5, 2012.
  7. ^ Ownby, David (May 1, 2008). "David Meets Goliath: The Conflict between Falun Gong and the Chinese State". Falun Gong and the Future of China. Oxford University Press. pp. 161–228. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195329056.003.0006. Archived from the original on January 3, 2024. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  8. ^ a b Zhao, Yuezhi, "Falun Gong, Identity, and the Struggle over Meaning Inside and Outside China", pp. 209–223 in Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, edited by Nick Couldry and James Curran (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
  9. ^ Loucaides, Darren; Perrone, Alessio (March 10, 2022). "The media giant you've never heard of, and why you should pay attention". openDemocracy. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  10. ^ Zadrozny, Brandy; Collins, Ben (August 20, 2019). "Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times". NBC News. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  11. ^ Couldry, Nick; Curran, James (2003). Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0742575202. Archived from the original on January 3, 2024. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
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