What Is The Epoch Times, Anyway?

 

“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.” 

 

“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.”

 

—Kevin Roose, technology columnist, “How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine,” NYTimes, Oct. 24, 2020. 

 

• See also, Joshua Benton, “What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, and the culmination of all that Facebook has encouraged,” NiemanLab, Oct. 26, 2020.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Misinformation is big business.

 

 

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