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Does anyone have any good resources on Falun Gong/Epoch Times and specifically their sources of funding? (hexbear.net)
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A friend recently made me aware of the fact that Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times is running anti-trans ads on the videos of pro-trans YouTubers, and so I’m trying to dig in and find out more about where their money is made. Also, does anyone know of an easy way to obtain this paper?: https://www.pdcnet.org/jrv/content/jrv_2020_0008_0003_0298_0307?file_type=pdf

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

trueanon's eps on the subject are good

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah I came here to recommend TrueAnon's three and a half part series on the Falun gong

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

One of their best series imo

[–] Xette@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I couldn't find a non-paywall'd version of the paper you linked, but if you follow through the links in this article there's a lot of good resources:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hedge-fund-man-behind-pro-trump-medias-new-war-on-china

[–] IvarK@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nathan Rich had a great video series on it

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I haven't heard of this but I'll check it out.

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found these two articles looking through Carl Zha's tweets:

https://archive.ph/Ch3T2

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/kiff-disproportionate-funding-goes-to-media-outlet-linked-to-falun-gong/wcm/79c724ee-4f09-4253-aaba-d7600850cf93/

Also, this report has some other interesting info about what BBG (now called USAGM) was funding:

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/RL33167.pdf

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

This is great. Thank you for this!