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Added NYTimes hit piece.
NBC claimed that the ''Epoch Times'' spent money on "pro-Trump" Facebook ads, despite the fact that they were advertisements for the print newspaper's subscription which highlighted articles on Trump. In response to the report from NBC, Facebook banned ads for ''The Epoch Times'', despite the fact that ''The [[New York Times]]'', [[CNN]] and other mainstream media organizations have also aired similar Facebook ads. The New York Times and CNN have a stronger partisan bias than the ''Epoch Times''.
NBC claimed that the ''Epoch Times'' spent money on "pro-Trump" Facebook ads, despite the fact that they were advertisements for the print newspaper's subscription which highlighted articles on Trump. In response to the report from NBC, Facebook banned ads for ''The Epoch Times'', despite the fact that ''The [[New York Times]]'', [[CNN]] and other mainstream media organizations have also aired similar Facebook ads. The New York Times and CNN have a stronger partisan bias than the ''Epoch Times''.
On October 25, 2020, the [[New York Times]] published an "investigative" hit piece against ''The Epoch Times'' mirroring many talking points espoused by NBC a year prior. This included claiming that the ''The Epoch Times'' "used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire." In response, ''The Epoch Times'' published an article highlighting "selective quotations", "personal bias" and "false information" present in the "investigative" report. It also linked to archives of concerning [[Twitter]] conversations between the author, Kevin Roose and [[NBC]]'s Ben Collins which "suggested they should have received 'a bounty' from Facebook for getting the company to ban Epoch Times advertisements."<ref>{{cite news |title=New York Times’ 8-Month-Long ‘Investigation’ of The Epoch Times: Light on Facts, Heavy on Bias |url=https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-times-8-month-long-investigation-of-the-epoch-times-light-on-facts-heavy-on-bias_3487144.html |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=www.theepochtimes.com |date=26 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Roose |first1=Kevin |title=How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
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