In a 2018 report, conservative think-tank the Hoover Institution commented that "the space for truly independent Chinese-language media in the United States has shrunk to a few media outlets supported by the adherents of Falun Gong, the banned religious sect in China, and a small publication and website called "Vision Times"", the report noting that the latter is also associated with Falun Gong. Similarly, in a 2019 report, Reporters Without Borders commented that "Aside from the Epoch Times newspaper and New Tang Dynasty Television, which are run by the Falun Gong, a religious movement persecuted in China, and "China Digital Times", a website founded by a leading US-based critic of the regime, the United States now has few truly independent diaspora media."