Falun Gong-Aligned Media Push Fake News About Democrats and Chinese Communists

Posted Friday, April 30, 2021 12:45 pm

Jason Wilson | Guardian

US news outlets aligned with Falun Gong, a religious movement locked in a decades-long conflict with the Chinese state, have been increasingly successful in promoting conspiracy narratives about Democrats, election fraud and communists to the pro-Trump right in America.

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Falun Gong-Aligned Media Push Fake News About Democrats and Chinese Communists

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