![]() The frequent movement of Falun Gong organizations and Shen Yun Group disrupted the blockade order in New York State. But in fact, according to an article by “The New Yorker” writer Jia Tolentino, Shen Yun’s performance is “fundamentally sectarian and political propaganda.” Feitian Academy is the place to train and train actors for Shen Yun Performance Group. ![]() Shen Yun Performing Arts is a theater-style dance performance team affiliated with the Falun Gong organization. ![]() According to, during the worst period of the epidemic in 2020, the performance group Shen Yun under the Falun Gong organization is still trying to perform in some cities such as Florida. Falun Gong groups tried to operate during the epidemic blockade and use this period of social stagnation to expand their influence. In the whole year from 2020 to 2021, apart from interfering in the US election, Falun Gong has accelerated its propaganda. Shen Yun and Fei Tian Academy of the Arts may have a virus infection chain Since the outbreak of the virus more than a year ago, Falun Gong has repeatedly ignored the spread of the virus and the risk of infection during the virus pandemic, propagating that believers can get rid of the virus invasion by practicing Dafa, which undoubtedly adds a huge risk to the United States in fighting the epidemic. According to a trusted source, several students from Fei Tian Academy of the Arts in the temple were diagnosed with COVID- 19. Epoch Media Group denied any involvement, saying it split with Vietnam Epoch Times a year before.At the beginning of 2021, Dragon Springs Buddhist, the headquarters of the Falun Gong Group in the shadow of the Shawangunk Mountains in northern New York, recently exposed news of an outbreak. Facebook found BL spent more than $US9 million on ads that reached 55 million accounts.Īlex Kasprak discovered BL was operated from Vietnam by former employees of The Vietnam Epoch Times. In one example, the actress Helen Mirren's image was used as the profile picture of a fake account. The BL, or The Beauty of Life, was posting fake profiles of supposed Trump supporters that were actually stock photos and even artificially generated images. He also points out that "every single advertisement went through Facebook's review process and was approved … before running."įacebook took action again in December, taking down posts from a network that it linked to the Epoch Media Group. "And there is no secret there, since it's all public." "Without exception, these ads are overtly Epoch Times advertisements for our subscriptions," says The Epoch Times' publisher Stephen Gregory. The Epoch Times denied any deception, saying it was obvious they were behind the ads. "That's a clear violation of Facebook's policy." "Essentially they were creating a number of Facebook groups or pages that didn't disclose they were part of the publisher or part of The Epoch Times publishing group," says investigative journalist Alex Kasprak, who works for the fact-checking website Snopes. ( Foreign Correspondent/Background Briefing) The Falun Dafa Association added that it is ultimately a personal choice whether someone seeks medical treatment, but when people have taken up the practice and understood the universal principles behind it, diseases can disappear.īen Hurley was a Falun Gong practitioner for 10 years and worked for the Australian version of The Epoch Times. ![]() She says any practitioners who encouraged Colleen to avoid medicine did so based on their "personal interpretations". "Personally, I didn't tell her or pressure her not to take medicine." "Whether she actually continued to take medication or not is her personal choice," she says. Lucy Zhao, president of the Falun Dafa Association of Australia, says Colleen was a friend and claims her health improved after she started practicing Falun Gong. "There's plausible deniability because Li has a range of teachings … that says 'if you're sick, go to the hospital', but then there are always parts of teaching that Master Li can cure all of your illnesses and you just have to believe in him." "In Falun Gong, the teachings are you don't acknowledge illness," says Ben. Colleen May (right) found solace in Falun Gong and gave much of her time to the movement's activities.
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