This page aggregates measured, corroborated evidence: donors' iPhones recorded apps contacting this domain, every claim below was reported by separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (later rows for an approved app inherit its verdict). A contact is a measurement, not an accusation — it does not show what data was sent.
img.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
img.theepochtimes.com is a subdomain of the app publisher's own domain (The Epoch Times) and the 'img' hostname suggests it serves article images/static assets, possibly via a CDN in front of it. Fetching first-party content does not by itself imply a data collection or sharing flow beyond what an app with no declared collection would need, so nothing here contradicts the empty label.
OpenAI — first-party
The domain is a subdomain of the app publisher's apparent theepochtimes.com domain and likely serves app content or images. A contact to an image host alone does not establish a data flow not covered by the label.
Google Gemini — first-party
The contacted domain img.theepochtimes.com shares the same organizational domain as the app publisher and is used for first-party content delivery.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.theepochtimes.mobile | — | 3 | 168 | 2026-07-30 |
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