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6 Mar, 7 tweets, 4 min read
So Laurence Fox is "honoured" to talk with far-right media group 'Epoch Times', which promotes far-right politicians in Europe, spreads anti-vax & other conspiracy theories, was the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook ads, & is affiliated with the Falun Gong movement.
Epoch Times became a close media ally of Trump, & spread the far-right, pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. It created a network of YouTube channels to pump out election disinformation, one of which claimed the Capitol Hill riot was a "false flag" operation orchestrated by antifa.
Epoch Times has spread #COVID19 misinformation, & has promoted anti-China rhetoric & conspiracy theories around the #coronavirus outbreak, for example through an 8-page special edition called "How the Chinese Communist Party Endangered the World".
In September 2017, The German edition of the newspaper, The Epoch Times Deutschland, was described as being aligned with the German far-right, & attractive to supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party & the anti-immigrant group Pegida.
In France, The Epoch Times gives "an unfettered platform to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the patriarch of the French far right, and his daughter, Marine, who leads the nationalist party her father founded," according to The New Republic.
The fact that Laurence Fox has some extremely wealthy, powerful, & influential backers with a global reach to extensive far-right networks, should sound alarm bells. He's spent a year or more fueling the 'culture war', & now seems to be importing Bannon-style tactics into London.
And here's a short THREAD from a while back, about Brextremist millionaire hedge fund tycoon Jeremy Hosking, who funds contrarian libertarian magazine 'The Critic', & also funds Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party.

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