The New York Times on March 9, 2021, published an article containing incorrect information about The Epoch Times prepared by a shadowy firm. The article, authored by Davey Alba, centers around the inaccurate claim that The Epoch Times is connected to “more than a dozen sites.” The New York Times makes this false claim without providing any evidence nor stating which websites it’s referring to. This is likely because the claim is not a result of The New York Times’ own reporting, but rather based on information that the newspaper was handed by a third party. While the initial version of Alba’s article did not reveal the source of the false information, The New York Times disclosed the identity of the entity in a correction statement. In its correction, The New York Times states that the actual “source of the data” is “Advance Democracy.” (The newspaper has since also updated …