(Minghui.org) Many practitioners who joined online chat groups were recently arrested. After Wang Yongjin, a practitioner from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, was arrested in July 2025, nearly every practitioner who had contact with him online was persecuted. Even though Minghui repeatedly warned practitioners in China about using Signal and Discord for online activities related to Falun Dafa, these practitioners ignored the warnings. Signal and Discord claim to use end-to-end encryption, but the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated these overseas apps and installed backdoor surveillance.
Wang helped many practitioners install computer software systems and purchase cell phones and printers. However the software he installed wasn’t the secure ones from Tiandixing.org, but the ones made in China, such as www.360.cn.
After Wang’s arrest in July, Ms. Wan Taoying from Jiangxi Province was arrested in Fuzhou on August 5, 2025. The police confiscated her three cell phones which Wang helped her purchase. On October 28, 2025, police across China launched an operation and arrested many practitioners in Wang’s chat groups. So far we’ve learned that more than ten practitioners were arrested that day, and many more were harassed.
Based on Minghui reports, numerous practitioners from various provinces have been persecuted as a result of the CCP’s infiltration of Signal and Discord chat groups. In the article titled “Do Not Follow Those Who Disrupt the Cultivation Environment” the author stated, “Some people have created chat groups on Discord and recruited practitioners in China to join their cliques, with the largest numbering in the hundreds. Should one who has taken up cultivation be striving for influence and fame in the secular world?”
Chat groups create security loopholes the old forces can exploit and they expand some practitioners’ attachments. When a chat group that has over 100 practitioners chats casually, if one of their cell phones is compromised, the IPs, logs, and names of everyone in that group are exposed. The CCP can easily find the practitioners. As cultivators, we should seriously examine ourselves and find the attachment that caused us to organize chat groups. Some who promote the use of chat groups claim they want to “help practitioners study the Fa together and coordinate truth-clarification efforts.” In fact, they were boosting their desire for power and they wished to show off. They ignored Master’s warning:
“But coordinating things on a large scale is not something you should be doing [in China] at this time.” (“2018 Fa Teaching Given in Washington, D.C.,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XV)
Many practitioners in these chat groups formed small cliques—they gradually deviated from and interfered with the Fa, and wasted their precious time.
I’d like to remind practitioners in China who participated in organizing chat groups: they must erase the record of the chat groups, and send more righteous thoughts. More importantly, Falun Dafa practitioners should not blindly join chat groups and provide others with their personal information. We should do the three things solidly. Let’s learn from this painful lesson and walk our paths well.
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