Falun Gong-aligned media push fake news about Democrats and Chinese communists

…The principal goal of Epoch Times – now publishing in 36 countries under the supervision of a network of non-profits – is not to generate profit, he says, but to mount a long and broad "influence operation". And the goal of that influence operation, in turn, is "to foment anti-CCP [anti-China] sentiment". 

By leveraging the deep partisan polarization in US politics, and by tapping into a long tradition of anticommunism on the American right, according to Carusone, the outlets have sought to link Biden and the Democratic party to radical leftist movements like antifa, and then publish "anything that ties them to CCP influence", however spurious…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/30/falun-gong-media-epoch-times-democrats-chinese-communists