How to Respond to Online Claims That “Yu’s Family Has Come Forward”

Recently, a netizen left a comment on one of my programs saying that Yu’s mother is still alive and that Yu’s family has come forward and needs help. Please don’t get excited just yet. I’m not here to share good news—I want to use this case to explain how we should respond when encountering this kind of situation.

When ordinary netizens see such claims, it’s easy to panic out of concern—immediately offering all their personal information and wanting direct contact with Yu’s family. Overseas viewers may be relatively safe, but for those inside China, this could immediately pose personal safety risks.
If this account is fabricated by internet trolls (water army), it would achieve multiple objectives at once:
 1. Collect personal information on supporters—especially key supporters;
 2. Undermine the credibility of Kandis Starr and Xuyu, since both mediums have said that Yu’s mother has already passed away and is with Yu;
 3. If this so-called “Yu’s mother” keeps existing but never appears in person, suspicion will linger indefinitely, obstructing the real progress of Yu’s case and the transmission of truthful information.

If what she said is true, then of course we hope Yu’s family is safe and can quickly receive attention and protection from the international community.
If she is a troll, then everyone she has contacted has likely already been placed under surveillance as key targets.
If she is simply a well-meaning supporter, then we must not act recklessly and risk harming our own side.

So the first thing I asked her was: What is your source of information?
She said it was a cousin’s account on Douyin (later it turned out she meant a cousin’s female account). I then asked how she could confirm that the account was actually managed by Yu’s family themselves. There was no clear answer.

She posted recent photos of Yu’s mother on her channel. More than one netizen pointed out that the images looked AI-generated. One netizen commented, “If this really is Yu’s mother, please post a video as proof” (I liked that comment). She replied that she had already asked the “cousin” directly and confirmed the photos were real.
Please remember this detail. If it is later proven that the information about Yu’s mother is false, then at the very least, this so-called “cousin” would be conclusively identified as a troll.

Even though neither her identity nor the “cousin’s” identity could be verified, I still left her a comment with my advice:
– Leave the country immediately and apply for asylum.
– Seek help from genuine Falun Dafa practitioners locally (not self-proclaimed ones, but real practitioners).
– I could not provide contact details for practitioners inside China, because her identity could not be verified and practitioners there face extreme risks; besides, there are many practitioners in China—if she truly needs help, she will be able to find them.
– I did leave my email address, as it is already public information.
I also advised that Yu’s family should stay as much as possible with genuine practitioners, because they are people who walk with the divine, and evil does not dare to touch them.
(Some friends might think: Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted so brutally—tortured, gang-raped, subjected to forced organ harvesting, demonized for decades—where does this confidence come from? I’ll address that in a separate post later.)

She then told me that Yu’s mother and family had already left China and were now in the United States. Shortly afterward, she deleted the previously posted photos and messages about Yu’s mother, saying she would first clarify the situation before updating everyone.

After that, I consulted Aunt Bei for her perspective. Aunt Bei is familiar with Xinjiang and is familiar with the military system, so she has always been particularly concerned about Lin Beichuan. She told me that Xinjiang is very different from other regions—the level of control there is far stricter than anywhere else in China, several times over.
(This is because Uyghurs in Xinjiang, like Falun Gong practitioners, are among the most severely persecuted groups and among those most subjected to forced organ harvesting. The Chinese government plans to build six additional “medical centers” with organ transplant facilities in Xinjiang by 2030. No one seriously believes this is for the health of local residents.)

The whereabouts of Yu’s mother and family are now a focal point for both justice and evil. There is no way they could have left China on their own without assistance. Any behind-the-scene supporter capable of helping them leave would have to be someone with very high status and power. It is therefore highly unlikely that, after leaving China, they would still need to ask random netizens online for help.

Aunt Bei then asked me: Have you thought about why she came to you specifically?
I said there were only two possibilities:
 1. The messenger has long followed my channel and believes I genuinely support Yu;
 2. I’m being targeted.

Aunt Bei said that wasn’t quite right. Even if someone is being targeted, it wouldn’t really be me—it would be my husband. I’m just a content creator, but my husband researches forced organ harvesting (which I’ve mentioned before). From the CCP’s perspective, his output would be far more threatening than mine.

Her reasoning made sense. In fact, if my husband hadn’t been targeted by now, that would surprise me more. The CCP is evil, but it’s not stupid.
My husband authored a study using rigorous statistical methods to demonstrate that the CCP’s official organ transplant data are systematically falsified. The paper is archived in the U.S. National Library of Medicine:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31722695/
It was also reported by Nature and more than a dozen major international media outlets:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0821-1

Even Xinhua, the CCP’s authoritative mouthpiece, published an article specifically to rebut it, claiming scholars would be found to refute the research—but nothing ever came of it. So I’m not worried about my husband being targeted; he’s been targeted for a long time already.

What Aunt Bei shared is just one possible explanation. I did not post the netizen’s ID because her identity has not been confirmed—this is both a form of protection for her and a necessary precaution. I have recorded her ID and will continue to closely observe her activity.

To summarize, if news about Yu’s family surfaces again:
 1. Verify the source of the information—what platform, which ID?
 2. Verify the identity of the person providing the information. “I heard” does not count as verification; no face-to-face confirmation means no verification. In the age of AI, photos and videos can no longer be treated as evidence.
 3. Offer help as much as possible without disclosing your own personal information or that of other supporters.