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Taiwan has been rated as the country most affected by disinformation for the 11th consecutive year in a study by the global research project Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). After Taiwan, Latvia and Palestine ranked second and third respectively, while Nicaragua, North Korea, Venezuela and China, in that order, were the countries that spread the most disinformation, the report said. Sky Fung (馮詔天), secretary-general of the Taiwan-based exile group Hong Kong Outlanders, said that the Chinese Communist Party also spreads propaganda about China’s progress and freedom, which misleads young people in Taiwan.

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