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Founded in 2000 by practitioners of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement banned in China, and published by the non-profit Epoch Times Association. Its coverage of China and of religious persecution there is extensive.
Its reporting on the Chinese state comes from a perspective with direct experience of it and covers subjects other outlets under-report. Critics point to aggressive digital advertising, to content on American politics and public health that has been widely disputed, and to a 2024 federal indictment of its former chief financial officer on money laundering charges.