New York Times “disinformation” reporter Davey Alba made the front page of Friday’s Business section with another hit piece on the rival, conservative newspaper The Epoch TimesThis outlet is supported by Falun Gong, a China-based religious organization that boasts a strong and supportive. Times, dangerous, social media presence. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also an opponent. This may annoy some. New York Times’ hard-left staffers.
The Epoch TimesAlthough it has an almost breathless feel to its coverage, the results may not always be as expected. The underlying story is not so good. NYT’s abject horror over EpochIts existence, and the apparent irritation at its firm stance against CCP thugs (who attacked the paper’s printing presse), smacks a bit of excessive overkill. Now it’s being criticized for spreading COVID misinformation on the back of cute cat clips in “How Cute Cats Help Spread Misinformation Online.”
New Tang Dynasty Television (a Chinese station connected to Falun Gong) posted a Facebook clip of a woman saving the baby shark from being stranded along a shore on Oct. 2. Next to the video was a link to subscribe to The Epoch Times, a newspaper This is Falun Gong’s ties and spreads anti-China conspiracy theories and anti-China propaganda.. It received 33,000 comments, likes and shares.
“Anti-China”? To be against the totalitarian Community Party regime in China isn’t “anti-China,” no matter how the liberal TimesWould like to combine the two.
Alba chases many targets but then returns to Epoch Timesit used cute videos of pets to get viewers. It was something which has not been seen before.
It is now becoming more apparent how widespread the internet old trick is being used, according to misinformation researchers.
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Epoch Media is the parent company to The Epoch Times and perhaps no other organization uses this tactic more forcefully than Epoch Media. Epoch Media has published videos of cute animals in 12,062 posts on its 103 Facebook pages in the past year, according to an analysis by The New York Times….
Alba tracked down even the original licensors for those dangerous videos.
Mike Skogmo, Jukin Media’s senior vice president for marketing and communications, said his company had a licensing deal with New Tang Dynasty Television, the station tied to Falun Gong.
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When asked if the company had evaluated whether they used their clips as misinformation bait in striking license agreements, Mr. Skogmo replied that Jukin didn’t have any other comments.
The Epoch TimesIs the New York TimesThis is Roose’s favorite whipping girl. Tech reporter Kevin Roose made a Sunday front page with a hit piece: “How an Obscure Newspaper Became a Bullhorn for the Far Right.” The Times itself never goes after the CCP with the same vigor.
Alba, previously called Epoch “a top purveyor of conspiracy theories and political misinformation” and again faulted it for “regularly publish[ing] anti-Chinese Communist Party content.” (A month later, the paper’s printing press in Hong Kong was smashed up, surely at the instigation of the CCP. Perhaps EpochDoes it have a point?”
The Times even went after the paper for having been handed out by white people in Wisconsin.
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