NYT btw:
Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China
The self-governing island is on high alert for digital-age trickery and deception that Beijing might be using to try to swing a crucial election.
By Raymond Zhong
Jan. 6, 2020
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — At first glance, the bespectacled YouTuber railing against Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, just seems like a concerned citizen making an appeal to his fellow Taiwanese.
He speaks Taiwanese-accented Mandarin, with the occasional phrase in Taiwanese dialect. His captions are written with the traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan, not the simplified ones used in China. With outrage in his voice, he accuses Ms. Tsai of selling out “our beloved land of Taiwan†to Japan and the United States.
The man, Zhang Xida, does not say in his videos whom he works for. But other websites and videos make it clear: He is a host for China National Radio, the Beijing-run broadcaster.
More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/technology/taiwan-election-china-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
With all of this talk on election interference, this is interesting.
