New Tang Dynasty Television

{{Short description|Multilingual Television Broadcaster affiliated with Falun Gong}} {{Redirect|NTDTV|the television station in the Northern Territory, Australia|NTD (Australian TV station)|the major television station in India|NDTV|Taiwanese official currency|New Taiwan Dollar}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox television channel | name = NTD Television | type = Global television network<br>Non-profit 501(c)(3)<ref>{{cite web |title=NTD Television - 990 Finder |url=https://app.candid.org/profile/7093036/ntd-television-22-3850071 |website=Candid |publisher=Candid |access-date=2026-05-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New Tang Dynasty Group Inc |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/270468311 |website=ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer |access-date=2026-05-17}}</ref> | area = USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, China, Taiwan and more | headquarters = New York City | language = Multiple, mainly Chinese and English | logo = NTD Logo with symbol.svg | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = 300px | logo_size = 275px | launch_date = December 3, 2001 | owner = Epoch Media Group | sister_channels = | website = {{Official URL}} | terr_serv_1 = cable service in major markets and 69 digital sub-channels | online_serv_1 = Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV and Sony Smart TV }} {{Chinese | t = 新唐人電視台 | s = 新唐人电视台 | p = Xīntángrén Diànshìtái | j = San1 tong4 jan4 Din6 si6 toi4 }}

'''New Tang Dynasty Television''' ('''NTD Television''') is a multilingual American television broadcaster founded by adherents of Falun Gong, a new religious movement, and based in New York City.<ref name="John Annese-2022" /> The station was founded in 2001 as a Chinese-language broadcaster,<ref name="Lawrence-2004">{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108190438992282143 |first1=Susan V.|last1=Lawrence|title=Falun Gong Fields Media Weapons |publisher=Dow Jones & Company|website=The Wall Street Journal|date=14 April 2004 |access-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105011654/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108190438992282143 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> and has since expanded its language offerings; in July 2020, it launched its 24/7 English channel which broadcasts nationwide in the U.S. and UK. It is under the Epoch Media Group, a consortium which also includes the newspaper ''The Epoch Times''.<ref name="NBC News-2019">{{Cite web|title=Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121|access-date=2020-08-15|website=NBC News|date=August 20, 2019|language=en|archive-date=August 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807013813/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121|url-status=live}}</ref> The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories including QAnon, anti-vaccine misinformation{{refn|<ref name="Kurlantzick-2023" /><ref name="Callery-2021">{{Cite news |last1=Callery |first1=James |last2=Goddard |first2=Jacqui |date=August 23, 2021 |title=Most-clicked link on Facebook spread doubt about Covid vaccine |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/most-clicked-link-on-facebook-spread-doubt-about-covid-vaccine-flknpp9n5 |access-date=December 22, 2021 |issn=0140-0460 |quote=Facebook's data on the first quarter of this year shows that one of its most popular pages was an article by ''The Epoch Times'', a far-right newspaper that has promoted QAnon conspiracy theories and misleading claims of voter fraud related to the 2020 US election. |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929134947/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/most-clicked-link-on-facebook-spread-doubt-about-covid-vaccine-flknpp9n5 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Waldman-2021">{{Cite web|last=Waldman|first=Scott|date=August 27, 2021|title=Climate denial newspaper flourishes on Facebook|url=https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-denial-newspaper-flourishes-on-facebook/|access-date=January 8, 2022|website=E&E News|language=en-US|quote=''The Epoch Times'', a far-right newspaper that echoes anti-vaccine messages and promoted former President Trump's false election claims, received 44.2 million views between April and June for a page that offers to sign up subscribers, according to a report released by Facebook last week.|archive-date=September 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928130328/https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-denial-newspaper-flourishes-on-facebook/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Zadrozny|first1=Brandy|last2=Collins|first2=Ben|date=August 20, 2019|title=Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121|url-status=live|access-date=January 15, 2022|website=NBC News|archive-date=August 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807013813/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/technology/facebook-ads-epoch-times.html|title=Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times|last=Alba|first=Davey|date=August 23, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 16, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317102616/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/technology/facebook-ads-epoch-times.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830229/epoch-times-facebook-ban-buying-ads-violating-policies-trump-propaganda|title=Epoch Times banned from advertising after sneaking pro-Trump propaganda onto Facebook|last=Gartenberg|first=Chaim|date=August 23, 2019|website=The Verge|language=en|access-date=December 16, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308211510/https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830229/epoch-times-facebook-ban-buying-ads-violating-policies-trump-propaganda//|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Perrone-2022">{{Cite web |last1=Perrone |first1=Alessio |last2=Loucaides |first2=Darren |date=March 10, 2022 |title=A key source for Covid-skeptic movements, the Epoch Times yearns for a global audience |url=https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/epoch-times/ |access-date=March 13, 2022 |website=Coda Media |language=en-US |archive-date=March 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313044144/https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/epoch-times/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|access-date=June 20, 2022|title=The battle in miniature|url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/10/the-battle-in-miniature|newspaper=The Economist|issn=0013-0613|date=October 10, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008190312/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/10/the-battle-in-miniature|url-status=live|quote=she got her news from the far-right One America News Network and ''Epoch Times'', a pro-Trump newspaper produced by the Falun Gong sect that has spread the anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy.}}</ref>}} and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election.{{refn|<ref name="Kurlantzick-2023" /><ref name="Callery-2021" /><ref name="Waldman-2021" /><ref>{{Cite web|author=Silverman|first=Craig|date=January 8, 2021|title=This Pro-Trump YouTube Network Sprang Up Just After He Lost|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/epoch-times-trump-you-tube|access-date=January 31, 2022|work=BuzzFeed News|archive-date=February 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213071936/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/epoch-times-trump-you-tube|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=van Zuylen-Wood|first=Simon|date=January 12, 2021|title=MAGA-land's Favorite Newspaper|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/inside-the-epoch-times-a-mysterious-pro-trump-newspaper/617645/|issn=1072-7825|access-date=March 17, 2023|archive-date=January 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104233012/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/inside-the-epoch-times-a-mysterious-pro-trump-newspaper/617645/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Swenson|first1=Ali|last2=Joffe-Block|first2=Jude|date=December 25, 2020|title=Lengthy video makes false claims about 2020 election|url=https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9900544617|access-date=January 14, 2021|work=Associated Press|archive-date=February 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223034737/https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9900544617|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Perrone-2022" />}}

==History== NTD was founded in 2001 by practitioners of the Falun Gong new religious movement.<ref name="Lawrence-2004"/><ref name="John Annese-2022">{{cite news |author1=John Annese |title=NYPD cop accused of spying for China heads to trial in the fall |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-cop-accused-spying-china-trial-set-20220817-mr5yjk6agjgtzadodwryhyfn6q-story.html |access-date=5 October 2022 |work=New York Daily News |date=17 August 2022 |archive-date=October 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005235108/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-cop-accused-spying-china-trial-set-20220817-mr5yjk6agjgtzadodwryhyfn6q-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The station has a regular focus on the promotion of traditional Chinese culture and western classical arts, and devotes extensive news coverage to Chinese human rights issues,{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} scrutinizing abuses of power by the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://english.ntdtv.com/ |title=NTD |access-date=August 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105044621/http://english.ntdtv.com/ |archive-date=January 5, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Chen-2007">{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Kathy |title=Chinese Dissidents Take On Beijing Via Media Empire |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119508926438693540 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=November 15, 2007 |language=en-US |archive-date=August 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809172922/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119508926438693540 |url-status=live }}</ref> The name was chosen to invoke the ancient Tang dynasty that the company considers "the golden age of Chinese spirituality and civilization ... known for its high moral standards and unparalleled cultural achievements."<ref>{{cite web|title=NTD About Us|url=https://www.ntd.com/about.html|access-date=January 22, 2021|archive-date=February 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207215409/https://www.ntd.com/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''The Christian Science Monitor'' in 2004 called NTD "the first independent Chinese-language TV station in the US".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ewald|first=Marie|date=April 8, 2004 |title=Network offers free press for Chinese in US |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0408/p11s01-ussc.html |url-status=live |journal=The Christian Science Monitor |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130425135027/http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0408/p11s01-ussc.html |archive-date=April 25, 2013 |access-date=May 25, 2020}}</ref> ''The Wall Street Journal'' said in 2007 that NTD "serves as a platform for China's pro-democracy dissidents, who have been torn by internal squabbling and lack of organization".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=Kathy |date=November 15, 2007 |title=Chinese Dissidents Take On Beijing Via Media Empire |website=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119508926438693540 |url-status=live |access-date=17 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809172922/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119508926438693540 |archive-date=August 9, 2017}}</ref>

In 2009, NTD had an income of $5.3 million, including $2.4 million from 3,000 donations. In 2011, NTD had a staff of 80, nearly all volunteers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Trotta |first=Daniel |date=2011-03-17 |title=TV channel trying to change China from New York |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-television-idUSTRE72G6SF20110317 |access-date=2020-12-22 |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208213145/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-television-idUSTRE72G6SF20110317 |url-status=live }}</ref>

By 2016, NTD's revenues were $7.4 million. In 2017, they more than doubled to $18 million, according to reports from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ProPublica |first=Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Ken Schwencke, Brandon Roberts, Alec Glassford |date=May 9, 2013 |title=Universal Communications Network Inc – Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/223850071 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307075602/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/223850071 |archive-date=March 7, 2020 |access-date=2020-02-06 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref><ref name="NBC News-2019" />

NTD started broadcasting to the UK on Sky TV on February 22, 2021<ref name="RXTV-2021">{{Cite web|url = https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/ntd-to-launch-on-sky|title = NTD to launch on Sky| work=RXTV |date = February 21, 2021|access-date = February 27, 2021|archive-date = February 25, 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210225222406/https://rxtvinfo.com/2021/ntd-to-launch-on-sky|url-status = live}}</ref> on channel 190 (previously used for MyTV channel), and subsequently on Freeview channel 271.

As of 2022, NTD reached about 6 million US households.<ref name="Kurlantzick-2023">{{Citation |last=Kurlantzick |first=Joshua |title=China's Mixed Effectiveness |date=2023-03-19 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197515761.003.0011 |work=Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World |pages=259–C11.P130 |access-date=2023-08-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780197515761.003.0011 |isbn=978-0-19-751576-1 |author-link=Joshua Kurlantzick |archive-date=August 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821011650/https://academic.oup.com/book/45866/chapter-abstract/400813849?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Relationship with Falun Gong == NTD, along with ''The Epoch Times'' and Sound of Hope, was founded by Falun Gong practitioners who had immigrated to the West. Many of its staff are Falun Gong adherents who volunteer their time and services. In an interview with the ''Wall Street Journal'', the former president Zhong Lee stated that the company's original purpose was to "speak as the voice of Falun Gong", and that "media can also play a big role pushing democracy in China".<ref name="Chen-2007" />

NTD is one of the organizations that Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi has referred to as "our media", along with ''The Epoch Times'' newspaper and the Shen Yun dance troupe.<ref name="NBC News-2019" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=September 5, 2010|title=Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference|url=https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lectures/20100905L.html|access-date=2020-08-15|last=Li|first=Hongzhi|website=www.falundafa.org|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807144813/https://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lectures/20100905L.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Content== NTD broadcasts programming regularly on its moderated YouTube channels, which include ''NTD Evening News'', ''NTD Business News, China in Focus,'' ''Capital Report'', ''NTD UK News'' and other shows.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NTD – YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/ntdtv |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=www.youtube.com |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522021256/https://www.youtube.com/c/ntdtv |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, NTD released a docudrama produced by Steve Bannon, the former ''Breitbart News'' chairman and advisor to Donald Trump. The film, ''Claws of the Red Dragon'', is about the telecom company Huawei and the Chinese government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/steve-bannon-huawei-canada-meng-wanzhou-claws-of-the-red-dragon_ca_5d6738c6e4b01fcc690eb468|title=Canada Has Starring Role In Steve Bannon's Film About Huawei|date=2019-08-28|website=HuffPost Canada|language=en|access-date=2020-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223001311/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/steve-bannon-huawei-canada-meng-wanzhou-claws-of-the-red-dragon_ca_5d6738c6e4b01fcc690eb468|archive-date=February 23, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-canadian-film-company-alleges-interference-by-ottawa-after-cmf-pulls/|title=Canadian film company alleges interference by Ottawa after CMF pulls funding on Huawei docudrama with ties to Stephen Bannon|access-date=2020-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916020918/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-canadian-film-company-alleges-interference-by-ottawa-after-cmf-pulls/|archive-date=September 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Bannon said that, in his dealings with NTD, the group was always able to provide enough funding when he asked for it.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roose |first=Kevin |date=2020-10-24 |title=How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html |access-date=2023-01-07 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405100135/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Promotion of misinformation and conspiracy theories === NTD has produced videos about topics such as a supposed connection between Wall Street and COVID-19, and a supposed plan by the People's Republic of China to destroy America.<ref name="Goforth-2020">{{Cite web |last=Goforth |first=Claire |date=2020-05-19 |title=YouTube ads are rife with coronavirus conspiracies—from the same right-wing site |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/epoch-times-coronavirus-youtube-ads/ |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US |archive-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612152434/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/epoch-times-coronavirus-youtube-ads/ |url-status=live }}</ref> NTD's ''Edge of Wonder'' YouTube channel has promoted QAnon, Moon landing conspiracy theories, the deep state conspiracy theory and 9/11 conspiracy theories.<ref name="Goforth-2020" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothschild |first=Mike |date=2019-08-27 |title=This massive YouTube channel is normalizing QAnon |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/edge-wonder-qanon-youtube/ |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US |archive-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422202939/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/edge-wonder-qanon-youtube/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="RXTV-2021" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Banias |first=MJ |date=14 May 2020 |title=Popular UFO Conspiracy Theorists Are Cashing In On the COVID-19 Pandemic |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/david-wilcock-ufo-conspiracy-theorist-covid-19-deep-state-ascension/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Vice |language=en |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209035238/https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ayyqw/david-wilcock-ufo-conspiracy-theorist-covid-19-deep-state-ascension |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 7, 2020, NTD uploaded a video released by ''The Epoch Times''.<ref name="Gramenz-2020" /> The video was flagged by Facebook as "partly false" for "the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory." The video featured Judy Mikovits, an anti-vaccination activist.<ref name="Gramenz-2020">{{cite news |last1=Gramenz |first1=Jack |date=April 16, 2020 |title=Controversial virus doco hidden |work=The Courier Mail |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/coronavirus-facebook-fact-check-hides-epoch-times-youtube-documentary/news-story/0cc5b6f2c1314e588a43447f9d43f03d |access-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016233230/https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/coronavirus-facebook-fact-check-hides-epoch-times-youtube-documentary/news-story/0cc5b6f2c1314e588a43447f9d43f03d |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Scientists Haven't Found Proof The Coronavirus Escaped From A Lab In Wuhan. Trump Supporters Are Spreading The Rumor Anyway. |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/coronavirus-rumors-escape-lab-china-fox-news-trump |access-date=May 7, 2020 |website=BuzzFeed News |date=April 22, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428185642/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/coronavirus-rumors-escape-lab-china-fox-news-trump |url-status=live }}</ref> The fact-checker Health Feedback said of the video that "several of its core scientific claims are false and its facts, even when accurate, are often presented in a misleading way".<ref>{{cite web |date=April 17, 2020 |first=Pablo |last=Rougerie |title=Viral video promotes the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory |url=https://science.feedback.org/viral-video-promotes-the-unsupported-hypothesis-that-sars-cov-2-is-a-bioengineered-virus-released-from-a-wuhan-research-laboratory/ |website=Science Feedback |publisher=Health Feedback |access-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916093018/https://science.feedback.org/viral-video-promotes-the-unsupported-hypothesis-that-sars-cov-2-is-a-bioengineered-virus-released-from-a-wuhan-research-laboratory/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On August 6, 2020, Facebook removed hundreds of fake accounts by a digital company called TruthMedia that promoted ''Epoch Times'' and NTD content and pro-Trump conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protests in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Facebook Takes Down Inauthentic Network Associated With Truth Media |url=https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_truth_media_fake_profiles.pdf |website=Graphika |access-date=January 7, 2023 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809115322/https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_truth_media_fake_profiles.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NBC News-2020">{{Cite web |title=Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056 |access-date=August 7, 2020 |website=NBC News |date=August 6, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806191216/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056 |url-status=live }}</ref> The operation included 303 Facebook accounts, 181 pages, 44 Facebook groups and 31 Instagram accounts,<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2020 |title=July 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report |url=https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/july-2020-cib-report/ |access-date=August 7, 2020 |website=About Facebook |language=en-US |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806232009/https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/july-2020-cib-report/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which in total were followed by more than 2 million people.<ref name="NBC News-2020" /> Snopes and NBC News reported that TruthMedia had ties to the Epoch Media Group,<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2020 |title=Facebook Removes Another Misinformation Network Linked to Epoch Times |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/08/06/facebook-epoch-times/ |access-date=August 7, 2020 |website=Snopes.com |language=en-US |archive-date=November 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120015030/https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/08/06/facebook-epoch-times/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NBC News-2020" /> but Stephen Gregory, publisher of ''The Epoch Times'', denied this.<ref name="NBC News-2020" />

In October 2021, NTD aired a report claiming that more people were dying due to side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine than the virus itself in Taiwan. The fact-checking website Polygraph.info found that the majority of people who died after vaccination had succumbed to pre-existing conditions or chronic diseases.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Echols |first=William |date=October 21, 2021 |title=Vaccines Are Not More Deadly Than COVID-19 in Taiwan |url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-taiwan-covid-vaccine-death/6743170.html |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=Polygraph.info |language=en |archive-date=January 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107030757/https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-taiwan-covid-vaccine-death/6743170.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kochhar |first=Nikita |date=December 9, 2021 |title=Misleading: COVID-19 vaccine related deaths in Taiwan are higher than those due to the virus. |url=https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/misleading-the-number-of-deaths-due-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-taiwan-is-higher-than-those-due-to-the-virus |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=Logically |language=en-gb |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204003511/https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/misleading-the-number-of-deaths-due-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-taiwan-is-higher-than-those-due-to-the-virus |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 23, 2022, NTD promoted rumors that a coup against Xi Jinping had occurred and that he was under house arrest. The rumors went viral on social media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kannan |first=Saikiran |date=September 30, 2022 |title=China coup rumour: How did it originate? |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/china-coup-president-xi-jinping-rumour-origin-spread-2006757-2022-09-30 |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=India Today |language=en |archive-date=January 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107012915/https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/china-coup-president-xi-jinping-rumour-origin-spread-2006757-2022-09-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> However these claims have been assessed by fact-checkers and researchers as unsubstantiated and characterized as misinformation.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=How the false rumor of a Chinese coup went viral |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/27/1060131/twitter-misinformation-coup-china-india/ |access-date=2026-05-25 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Palma |first=Bethania |date=2022-09-26 |title=No Evidence Xi Jinping Is Under House Arrest Amid Supposed Coup Attempt in China |url=https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/xi-jinping-house-arrest-coup/ |access-date=2026-05-25 |website=Snopes |language=en}}</ref> Xi made a public appearance on September 27, after a brief absence since mid-September.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 September 2022 |title=China's Xi makes first public appearance after 'coup' rumours |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/chinas-xi-makes-appearance-in-beijing-amid-rumors-over-absence |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en |archive-date=January 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107012915/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/chinas-xi-makes-appearance-in-beijing-amid-rumors-over-absence |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Censorship== In January 2008, the Chinese embassy in the United States discouraged viewers from watching or attending NTD's Chinese New Year galas and accused NTD of spreading "anti-China propaganda" and "distorting Chinese culture".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/gyzg/t397390.htm |title=Enjoy the Holidays and Stay away from the so-called "Chinese New Year Gala" of the New Tang Dynasty Television |work=Chinese Embassy in the United States of America |date=January 7, 2008 |access-date=March 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206133014/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/gyzg/t397390.htm |archive-date=February 6, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2008, the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused Eutelsat, a European satellite operator, of closing down transmissions of NTD to Asia through its W5 satellite to appease the Chinese government,<ref name="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders: [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27818 European satellite operator Eutelsat suppresses independent Chinese-language TV station NTD to satisfy Beijing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713050537/http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27818 |date=July 13, 2008 }}, July 10, 2008, retrieved on 2009-01-19</ref> and appealed to Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta to resume the broadcasts. RSF said it possessed a recording of a Beijing employee of Eutelsat revealing a "premeditated, politically motivated decision".<ref name="Reporters Without Borders"/> Eutelsat responded that the shutdown resulted solely from a technical failure of its W5 satellite, denied the validity{{Verification needed|date=December 2020}} of the conversation alleged by RSF, and said that it still broadcast NTD to Europe.<ref name="eutelsatJan15">[http://www.eutelsat.com/news/compress/en/2009/html/PR0309/PR0309.html Eutelsat reaffirms to European institutions the irreversible and purely technical nature of the incident resulting in the interruption of consumer broadcasting services through its W5 satellite] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726052526/http://www.eutelsat.com/news/compress/en/2009/html/PR0309/PR0309.html |date=July 26, 2011 }}, January 15, 2009, retrieved on 2009-01-19</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Clover|first=Julian|date=July 28, 2008|title=Eutelsat defends NTDTV position|url=http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2008/07/28/eutelsat-defends-ntdtv-position/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901014638/http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2008/07/28/eutelsat-defends-ntdtv-position/|archive-date=September 1, 2015|access-date=April 10, 2015|website=Broadband TV News}}</ref> The International Federation of Journalists said Eutelsat was capable of resuming NTD transmissions to Asia, and it and members of the European Parliament{{Verify source|date=December 2020}} called on Eutelsat to do so.<ref>International Federation of Journalists: [http://europe.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-calls-on-eutelsat-to-end-bar-on-chinese-ntdtv-broadcasts IFJ Calls on Eutelsat To End Bar on Chinese NTDTV Broadcasts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171422/http://europe.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-calls-on-eutelsat-to-end-bar-on-chinese-ntdtv-broadcasts|date=July 26, 2011}}, August 20, 2008, retrieved on 2009-01-19</ref><ref name="eutelsatJan15" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-09-13 |title=Contract finally signed for NTDTV long-term broadcast on Eutelsat satellite {{!}} RSF |url=https://rsf.org/en/contract-finally-signed-ntdtv-long-term-broadcast-eutelsat-satellite |access-date=2026-05-17 |website=rsf.org |language=en}}</ref>

==NTD Canada== {{Infobox television channel | name = NTD Canada | launch_date = March 28, 2012 | picture_format = 1080i (HDTV) | owner = NTD Canada | country = Canada | area = National | headquarters = Toronto, Ontario | website = {{url|ca.ntdtv.com}} }}

NTD Television Canada officially launched on Rogers Cable on September 30, 2008,<ref>{{cite web |title=NTD Television Canada's official launch on Rogers in September, 2008 |url=http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2008/10/16/a209800.html |date=October 16, 2008 |access-date=September 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710011424/http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2008/10/16/a209800.html |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> on Bell Fibe TV in 2010, and on Shaw Cable on March 28, 2012. It is also available on Novus Entertainment in Vancouver.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Tang Dynasty Multi-Language Channel Launched on Shaw Cable systems in Western Canada |url=http://ntdtv.org/en/pressrls/2012-04-30/new-tang-dynasty-multi-language-channel-launched-on-shaw-cablesystems-in-western-canada.html }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On July 25, 2012, NTD Television officially launched '''NTD Canada''', a local Canadian channel for Chinese viewers in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Tang Dynasty Multi-Language Channel Launched on Shaw Cablesystems in Western Canada|url=http://ntdtv.org/en/pressrls/2012-04-30/new-tang-dynasty-multi-language-channel-launched-on-shaw-cablesystems-in-western-canada.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814065209/http://ntdtv.org/en/pressrls/2012-04-30/new-tang-dynasty-multi-language-channel-launched-on-shaw-cablesystems-in-western-canada.html|archive-date=August 14, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In June 2010, the Canadian Prime Minister's Office canceled a press conference that NTD and ''The Epoch Times'' would have attended so that General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao would not come into contact with the broadcaster, allegedly following terms from the Chinese consulate. According to the ''Toronto Star'', such press conferences are usually a standard procedure for foreign leaders visiting the Parliament, and the cancellation was seen as an extraordinary measure to keep NTD away from the Chinese leader.<ref>Susan Delacourt, [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/827903--harper-helps-hu-keep-critics-away "Harper helps Hu keep critics away"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021234811/http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/827903--harper-helps-hu-keep-critics-away|date=October 21, 2012}}, Fri Jun 25, 2010</ref>

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