A video by anti-CCP influencer Pa Chiung and former pro-CCP rapper Chen Po-yuan released late last month once again drawn public attention to Chinese United Front activity directed at Taiwan...
The issue of Taiwanese influencers receiving funding or direction from the Chinese government has received attention after a recent series of viral videos. In a 40-minute video which has since attracted 2.4 million views, Pa Chiung, an anti-CCP YouTuber, interviews Chen Po-yuan. Chen Po-yuan, a Taiwanese rapper, is known for producing Chinese nationalist anthems that adulate the CCP...
It may not be surprising to observe the uptick in Chinese disinformation ahead of the nine-in-one elections scheduled to take place in late November. Nevertheless, what is important to note is to what extent that disinformation is also spread by pan-Blue domestic outlets...
Hualien resident Yin Yuan-cheng, a Taiwanese national, and his Chinese wife, Liu Hui, face jail time over posts on Facebook circulating disinformation about COVID-19. The couple run two Facebook groups, the “Diba Base” and the “Diba Central Force”. ...
News reports state that Phoenix Television will be withdrawing from Taiwan in May, laying off its 25 employees on May 14th. This comes after the network has come under scrutiny for whether it can be considered Chinese state media, as raised by DPP legislator Liu Shyh-fang and others...
A fake agreement between the Taiwanese and Japanese governments was circulated on social media last week, claiming that the Taiwanese government had agreed to take on wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The incident led to a response from the Presidential Office and has led to warnings that Chinese disinformation efforts directed at Taiwan could be growing more sophisticated...
Reports by the Liberty Times, quoting an anonymous source, stated earlier this month that the Chinese government was seeking to train Taiwanese young people as influencers in order to popularize pro-China views...
A recent case involving the recruitment of Taiwanese as agents for spreading disinformation by the Chinese government has not led to a great deal of public attention. But the case is worth examining in detail...
After weeks of speculation, the National Communication Commission ruled today that it would not be renewing the license of television broadcaster CtiTV. One expects the ruling to lead to resistance from the KMT, as well as accusations against the Tsai administration that it is violating freedoms of press in Taiwan from the pan-Blue camp...
An alliance of NGOs, civil society organizations, and student activist groups held a demonstration against Chinese efforts directed at annexing Taiwan outside the Qunxian Building of the Legislative Yuan earlier this evening. Significantly, this included many individuals who had been key figures in the Sunflower Movement and post-Sunflower Movement activists...
