China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
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China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
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#2It seems worth the cost and effort to improve CAPTCHAs and comment microtransactions to prevent automated and boiler room sentiment manipulation.
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#3>She points to a spurious claim that America “wants to blow up” TSMC, a Taiwanese chipmaker. It originated with a misleading video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which featured an American lawmaker appearing to discuss the possibility.
This part stood out to me as I've seen this mentioned several times on HN in the past.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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#5> America had asked Taiwan to manufacture biological weapons at a lab run by the island’s defence ministry, the report claimed.
This reminds me a lot of the (presumably Russian disinformation) story that flitted around American conservative spheres early in the Ukraine war saying that the US gov was setting up bio weapon labs at the border with Russia and that's why the Russian invasion was justified. Funny how the exact same propaganda can be shared between conflicts to good effect presumably.
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#8>She points to a spurious claim that America “wants to blow up” TSMC, a Taiwanese chipmaker. It originated with a misleading video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which featured an American lawmaker appearing to discuss the possibility. This part stood out to me as I've seen this mentioned several times on HN in the past. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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#9> America had asked Taiwan to manufacture biological weapons at a lab run by the island’s defence ministry, the report claimed. This reminds me a lot of the (presumably Russian disinformation) story that flitted around American conservative spheres early in the Ukraine war saying that the US gov was setting up bio weapon labs at the border with Russia and that's why the Russian invasion was justified. Funny how the e…
There's going to be a lot of Russian and Chinese interference in American politics in 2024 for sure
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Could you list a bunch of it and explain why it's disinformation? Given it's a flood, there must be an enormous amount of it over time.