Tech billionaire and Democratic donor Neville Singham is heavily funding a wide-ranging pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda network, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Singham funds finance the Chinese government’s propaganda efforts through a complex web of shell companies and non-profits around the world. according to to the Times. Singham has also donated thousands of dollars to campaign funds to left-wing politicians such as Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Massachusetts and independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. record show.

Singham’s millions are finding their way into organizations such as think tanks in Massachusetts, venue spaces in New York, political parties in South Africa and media organizations in Brazil and India, according to the paper. It turns out that each of these groups essentially mixes left-wing issues with CCP propaganda narratives. For example, it denies Taiwan’s independence claims and downplays the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in mainland China. (Related: ‘Slow-motion robbery’: Midwestern farmer accuses CCP of stealing precious U.S. seed)

The New York Times reported that Neville Singham was a “central figure” in “a well-funded influence campaign to defend China and promote its propaganda.”

Singham has donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party.

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Singham was alleged to have used multiple non-profits to raise money for organizations around the world, according to the paper, which is tax-deductible for his funding of pro-CCP propaganda networks. It means that there is a possibility that The paper said none of the various nonprofits it identified registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a requirement for any organization seeking to change public opinion in the United States at the behest of a foreign government. It says.

Other groups with ties to Singham have also uploaded content to YouTube, posting videos that have been viewed millions of times, the newspaper said. According to The Times, these groups are recycling and echoing each other’s content, also amplified by Chinese state media, all of which unfairly denigrates China, a benevolent nation on the world stage. It is said that this has contributed to the formation of an artificial consensus that the country is a

According to The Times, Singham claims he does not work for the Chinese Communist Party or follow its instructions. However, Singham reportedly shares office space with a company that informs foreigners of “China’s miracle on the world stage.”

In addition, several Singham-backed organizations share personnel with the same pro-Communist companies, The Times reported.

Campaign finance records show that Singham has been one of America’s most left-leaning congressional politicians, including Sanders, Jayapal, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Illinois Rep. Chewy Garcia and California Rep. Barbara Lee. I am donating to the family.

Officials suggested Singham was an admirer of Maoism, the communist sect that gave birth to the modern Chinese Communist Party, the newspaper said. Singham once praised Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela as “a phenomenally democratic place,” according to The Times.

Singham’s wife, Jodi Evans, runs the pro-China group Code Pink, which defends US pacifism and left-wing causes, while defending the CCP’s detention of Uyghur Muslims, according to the newspaper. ing. Other left-wing and advocacy groups have grown more skeptical of the Singam network, but have avoided publicly criticizing the tendencies of the Singam network’s apologists.

Other left-wing groups fear that leveling such criticism will undermine their work on climate change and gender theory, according to The Times.

The offices of Jayapal, Sanders, Garcia, Omar, Lee and Cord Pink did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Singham could not be reached for comment.

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