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api.theepochtimes.com
classified as first-party · 2
What our research panel found AI-drafted · human-reviewed
We ask several independent AI models the same question and publish their answers separately — cross-vendor agreement is evidence against fabrication, and disagreement is worth seeing. 3 of 3 models answered, overall confidence high. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
The domain's registrable name matches the app's own bundle identifier (com.theepochtimes.mobile), so api.theepochtimes.com is almost certainly the publisher's own backend API rather than a third-party service. A first-party API call is consistent with fetching content and does not by itself imply collection of data the empty privacy label fails to cover, so I cannot call this undisclosed from the information given.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain api.theepochtimes.com appears to be a first-party API subdomain associated with the app's apparent publisher. No evidence is provided about what data was transmitted, so the undeclared privacy-label status cannot be determined from this contact alone.
Google Gemini — first-party
The domain api.theepochtimes.com belongs to the app's publisher and serves as its first-party API endpoint. Standard first-party API traffic for core functionality does not imply an undisclosed data collection flow without specific payload evidence.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.theepochtimes.mobile | — | 3 | 6 | 2026-07-30 |
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