Disinformation from China floods Taiwan’s most popular messaging app
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A messaging tool called Line has been used to spread false information about Covid-19 and downplay reports of human rights abuses in China Back in November 2018, Taiwan was targeted by a massive disinformation campaign. The aim of this effort, widely attributed to Beijing, was to influence midterm election results on the island, which China has claimed as part of its own territory since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. Many political analysts now believe that this (...)
