SAN FRANCISCO — Late last summer, YouTube users began noticing a surge of ads for an obscure news outlet called The Epoch Times. “Anyone else getting a lot of Epoch Times ads?” a user on a YouTube-themed Reddit forum wrote. “Every other ad on YouTube is a commercial for The Epoch Times pushing Trump,” wrote a Twitter user. The Epoch Times is one of the most mysterious fixtures of the pro-Trump media universe. Mr. Trump and his advisers have shared Epoch Times articles on their social media accounts, and last year, Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, sat for an interview with an Epoch Times editor.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2020 09:56 UTC