Falun Dafa Information Center

What Falun Dafa Information Center does

The Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC) is a private, donation-funded information and research organization founded around 2000 in the aftermath of the Chinese Communist Party's 1999 crackdown on Falun Gong. It operates as an advocacy and information center rather than a commercial enterprise, with the explicit mission of documenting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and providing accurate information about the practice to global audiences. The organization serves three primary constituencies: Falun Gong practitioners and supporters worldwide, researchers/journalists/policymakers, and Chinese-speaking audiences across the diaspora.

The organization's core product is a unified information platform consisting of three interconnected properties — the main website faluninfo.net (news, research reports, and educational content), Faluninfo TV (documentaries, testimonials, and video journalism), and the Faluninfo Library (an archival collection of documentation, testimonies, and historical records). The platform is published in 10+ languages through dedicated country subdomains (English, Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Swedish, Hebrew, Polish, Bulgarian). Recent additions include a real-time Incident Tracker monitoring transnational repression and a 2025 nationwide survey report on CCP attacks against Falun Gong on U.S. soil. The underlying technology is described as a content management and publication platform with no APIs, SDKs, or disclosed AI capabilities.

The organization operates on a non-commercial model: all content is distributed free of charge, and operations are funded solely through donations and voluntary support. It reaches its audience through a combination of content marketing, monthly newsletter distribution, video/multimedia content, grassroots volunteer distribution of printed materials, and policy engagement with government officials and international bodies. It is recognized as a primary information source on Falun Gong by some international policymakers, including U.S. Secretaries of State and members of Congress, and has been cited in connection with multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations and the Sakharov Prize nomination for Falun Gong's founder.

Name

Falun Dafa Information Center

Legal name

Falun Dafa Information Center

Website

https://faluninfo.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Falun Dafa Information Center is a private, donation-funded advocacy and research organization founded in 2000 that documents the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong through its multilingual faluninfo.net website, Faluninfo TV, and Library, serving practitioners, researchers, journalists, and policymakers worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Rights Information and Advocacy

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Rights, Privacy & Free Expression Advocacy (BPAGAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Digital Archives, Libraries & Institutional Access Platforms (MPAJAMAJ)

Keywords

• Human rights advocacy
• Religious freedom documentation
• Persecution research reports
• Multilingual news publishing
• Nonprofit information center

Headquarters

HQ city

Otisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Support: The organization operates as a nonprofit information center that relies on donations and support to fund its operations, research, and advocacy activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Falun Dafa Information Center operates a free, multilingual digital information and advocacy platform that documents the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. It publishes news, investigative reports, survivor testimonies, and historical documentation through its main website, video platform, and library, serving as a globally recognized primary source on Falun Gong for practitioners, researchers, journalists, and policymakers.

Product overview

Falun Dafa Information Center operates a unified information platform consisting of three interconnected properties: the main faluninfo.net website serving as the primary publication hub for news, research reports, and educational content; Faluninfo TV (tv.faluninfo.net) delivering multimedia video content including documentaries and testimonials; and the Faluninfo Library (library.faluninfo.net) providing archival access to documentation and historical records. The organization functions as a human rights information and advocacy center rather than a technology product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Faluninfo.net Website The primary information website providing comprehensive documentation, news, research reports, and educational content about Falun Gong, its history, the persecution in China, and related human rights issues. Available in 10+ languages including English, Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Hebrew, Polish, Bulgarian, and Indonesian.
• Faluninfo TV A multimedia platform featuring documentaries, testimonials, news coverage, and video content related to Falun Gong, Shen Yun Performing Arts, and reporting on human rights abuses.
• Faluninfo Library An archive of Falun Gong-related documentation, research materials, personal accounts, and historical records.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 350 million Chinese have received information about CCP through petitions and declarations documented by related organizations
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Watch is a large, established international human rights organization that produces research reports and policy advocacy on China, religious freedom, and transnational repression. It is a comparable in function and policymaker audience, but at much larger scale and broader topical scope.
• Freedom House: Freedom House is a U.S.-based international freedom and democracy advocacy organization that publishes research and rankings. It awarded FDAIC's founder, making it a known institutional counterpart with overlapping religious-freedom and China-policy focus.
• Amnesty International: Amnesty International is a global human rights research and advocacy organization that publishes country reports and mobilizes campaigns. It is a broad incumbent with overlapping functions of research, documentation, and policy engagement.

Direct peers

• Minghui.org: Minghui.org is the primary Falun Gong-affiliated clearinghouse for practitioner accounts and persecution documentation. It is the closest direct functional peer to Falun Dafa Information Center, sharing language, audience, and editorial mission, with FDIC positioned as the English/multilingual policy-facing complement.
• The Epoch Times: The Epoch Times is a Falun Gong-affiliated multilingual media outlet producing news, opinion, and investigative content. It overlaps with FDAIC's news and documentation function and shares the same practitioner ecosystem.
• New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD): NTD is a Falun Gong-affiliated global television network. It mirrors FDAIC's role as a multimedia/news arm of the movement and serves Chinese-speaking diaspora audiences with overlapping content.
• Shen Yun Performing Arts: Shen Yun is a Falun Gong-affiliated performing arts organization that FDAIC actively documents and defends in its news and research sections. The two are sister organizations within the same movement and share audience, leadership, and advocacy agenda.
• Sound of Hope Radio Network: Sound of Hope is a Falun Gong-affiliated Chinese-language radio network. It is a direct peer in the movement's multilingual media ecosystem, with overlapping audience and editorial positioning.

Emerging players

• ChinaAid: ChinaAid is a nonprofit focused on religious freedom and human rights in China. It is comparable to FDAIC in mission and audience but with a narrower religious-freedom framing and smaller media footprint.
• China Human Rights Defenders: China Human Rights Defenders is a coalition that documents and advocates for Chinese human rights activists. It is a like-minded emerging player in the China-focused human rights research and advocacy space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FalunInfoCtr
• Facebookfacebook.com/faluninfo

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Funding overview

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