 In 2017, Chinese authorities announced that two of the assassins had been successfully “re-educated” in jail.Although they maintained that theirs was a group based on the belief that the two female leaders of their movement, not Yang Xiangbin, were the real Almighty God, they also blamed books and Web sites of Eastern Lightning for having “ideologically corrupted” them in their youth.In weeks before the 2019 Israeli election, as reported by BuzzFeed, Twitter suspended dozens of Hebrew-language accounts run by The Church of Almighty God that were amplifying right-wing religious and political messages.