My guess would be the authors of the NBC hit piece
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Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121
Aug. 20, 2019, By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins