On Friday, the Los Angeles Times published a story rehashing previous articles that have since been contested and mostly centering on a year-old lawsuit against the school. That lawsuit, alleging that students were confined and forced to do unpaid labor, has been dismissed and stayed.
The sensationalist story was further contradicted when a commenter with the username "caotingbo"—which matches the name of the main source for the article, Tingbo Cao—claimed he was the subject of the article and that he was not confined by any "wall," directly contradicting allegations that students were "physically trapped" at the Bible college, which has campuses in Southern and Northern California. Instead, he claimed he was not trapped in the school but solely in his "mind."
