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Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, from Tsai’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), told ''[[Al Jazeera]]'' in 2018<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/23/fake-news-rattles-taiwan-ahead-of-elections/</ref>,
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, from Tsai’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), told ''[[Al Jazeera]]'' in 2018<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/23/fake-news-rattles-taiwan-ahead-of-elections/</ref>,
{{quotebox-float|"We received propaganda warfare coming from China for years, but this is taking a very different form,. It’s coming in not from newspapers or their propaganda machine but through our social media, online chat groups, [[Facebook]], the zombie accounts set up, somewhere, by the Chinese government....It’s a more serious problem because China is so close to Taiwan, language-wise. They don’t have the cultural or language barrier and can easily fabricate news and they know the mentality of Chinese thinking, so it’s easier for them to orchestrate this misinformation.”}}
{{quotebox-float|"We received propaganda warfare coming from China for years, but this is taking a very different form,. It’s coming in not from newspapers or their propaganda machine but through our social media, online chat groups, [[Facebook]], the zombie accounts set up, somewhere, by the Chinese government....It’s a more serious problem because China is so close to Taiwan, language-wise. They don’t have the cultural or language barrier and can easily fabricate news and they know the mentality of Chinese thinking, so it’s easier for them to orchestrate this misinformation.”}}
False stories were traced to servers in the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party and it’s 50 Cent Army. Beijing has reached deep into Taiwan, sowing division and confusion through online disinformation, recruiting business figures, and funnelling cash to pro-Beijing politicians.
False stories were traced to servers in the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party and it’s 50 Cent Army. Beijing has reached deep into Taiwan, sowing division and confusion through online disinformation, recruiting business figures, and funneling cash to pro-Beijing politicians.
==Harvard study==
Researchers from [[Harvard University]] and the [[University of California]] [[San Diego]] published a study in 2017 entitled ''How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social
Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument'' based on an archive of 43,757 emails [[leak]]ed from the Internet Propaganda Office of Zhanggong,
a district of Ganzhou City in Jiangxi province. The study received funding from [[DARPA]] and the [[National Science Foundation]].
==Further reading==
==Further reading==