China leverages disinformation to inflame its repression of target groups, including the spiritual group Falun Gong, according to Peabody award-winning film director Jason Loftus.
“Disinformation has been used to fuel atrocious human rights abuses like imprisonment and torture,” Loftus recently told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.
“It’s essentially a bully tactic of repressing people until they no longer dare to stand up anymore,” he said.
The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda campaign against Falun Gong—and a group of adherents’ daring effort to combat it—was the subject of Loftus’ new documentary “Eternal Spring.”
The film won the Audience Award at HotDocs and garnered other wins at film festivals in Europe….