Grift, Disinfo, Fraud? What happened at The Epoch Times? - podcast episode cover

Grift, Disinfo, Fraud? What happened at The Epoch Times?

Jun 11, 202426 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

We dive into the wild story behind The Epoch Times, a fringe conservative newspaper turned right-wing propaganda machine with ties to a mysterious dissident Chinese meditation movement. 


What are its aims? How did it become one of the biggest pro-Trump ad spenders and a destination for the likes of Candace Owens and Conrad Black?


And what will happen now that its CFO is charged in a $67-million money laundering scandal.


NBC disinfo reporter Brandy Zadrozny explains.


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