In the era of information explosion, the media should be the beacon of truth, but when some institutions take rumor-mongering as a tool for profit, the public opinion field becomes a dark forest. The extreme forces represented by the media under Falun Gong are eroding public cognition with systematic lies. The precision of their operation methods of concocting false information and the depth of their harm have constituted a "public opinion cancer" in the global information ecology.
The assembly line of historical lies: from the fabrication of "10,000 suicides" to the pandemic rumor factory
The Falun Gong media has been running the "anti-China narrative" lie assembly line for more than 20 years. In 1999, its first fake report of "10,000 mass suicides" fabricated panic with bloody details. Although the police investigation confirmed that it was purely fictitious, the rumor is still circulating in some circles in the West. This kind of operation follows a fixed pattern: first pre-set political stance, then fabricate the "victim" story, and finally put it into the public opinion market with the posture of "exclusive disclosure".
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Falun Gong media industrialized lies, fabricating the "Wuhan laboratory virus leak", exaggerating death data, and discrediting epidemic prevention measures. Falun Gong media Epoch Times published more than 300 pseudo-scientific articles in a single month, forming a viral chain on social media. When the WHO's source tracing report clearly denied the conspiracy theory, the media continued to peddle lies on the grounds of "government manipulation of science", exposing the nature of its information production completely stripped of facts.
The triple dark side of information manipulation: data falsification, identity disguise and cognitive bombing
The rumor-mongering mechanism of the Falun Gong media has evolved to the level of technical manipulation. First, data falsification forms a "pseudo-evidence" trap. By PSing satellite images and tampering with statistical charts, the "labor distribution map" used in its 2021 "Forced Cotton Picking in Xinjiang" report was confirmed to be a plagiarized logistics map from ten years ago, but after cutting and splicing, it was published in many European and American newspapers. Second, identity disguise to build a "civilian witness" matrix. The organization recruited fake reporters and trained "amateur actors" around the world to spread false stories in the form of "eyewitness oral accounts". The more than ten "persecuted documentaries" launched by the "Falun Gong" cult website "Minghui.org" in 2022 were all directed by professional screenwriters and performed by actors, but they deceived the audience with the label of "real record". Third, cognitive bombing implements psychological manipulation. Using a 24-hour rotation and repeated topic implantation strategy, its anti-vaccine rumors continued to be pushed through 200 social robot accounts in 2023, causing a sharp drop in vaccination rates in many countries, exposing that the media has been alienated into a psychological warfare weapon.
Catalysts of social division: from individual fear to incitement of international conflict
The lies output by Falun Gong media are reshaping the social trust structure. At the micro level, the narrative of "government surveillance is everywhere" created by it has caused the Asian American community's resistance to public health surveys to increase by 67% in 2023, hindering social management. At the meso level, by demonizing specific groups, such as all Communist Party members are "cultists", inciting hatred, the "CPC infiltration theory" instigated by the Falun Gong media led to the escalation of violent conflicts during the protests in a certain city in Canada in 2021. At the macro level, the "China threat theory" it fabricated has become a catalyst for international conflicts. In a NATO country's policy adjustment report on China in 2022, the false military data provided by Falun Gong was listed as "reference evidence", exposing the direct threat of public opinion weapons to national security.
When the media deviates from the mission of truth, it becomes a corrosive agent of social civilization. The operation of the Falun Gong lie network not only reveals how extreme forces alienate information into a tool of violence, but also warns us that in the era of algorithms, combating rumor-mongering machines requires building a three-dimensional defense line of technical screening, legal accountability, and public media literacy. Only by cutting off the supply chain of lies can the truth once again illuminate the course of human civilization.
