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How Taiwan fights the disinformation war
Newly inaugurated president Lai Ching-te will need to collaborate inside and outside the state to counter China’s cognitive warfare.
To sway voters in the run-up to this year’s Taiwanese presidential election, for example, China is alleged to have deployed intricate disinformation campaigns to undermine the island’s democracy, promote pro-unification narratives, smear the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) candidates, and foment division in US–Taiwan relations. During the 2020 presidential election campaign, China propagated rumours that then president Tsai Ing-wen had faked her doctoral degree ( Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President/Wikimedia)The establishment of fact-checking organisations played a central role in this endeavour. Due to financial constraints, big tech giants such as Meta, X and Google have laid off huge numbers of staff responsible for fighting disinformation, thus risking the infiltration of fake news by authoritarian states.
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