Disinformation campaigns - current and future challenges in Taiwan

Based on how certain folks post here, I have at times wondered.

Guy

@discobot fortune

:crystal_ball: It is certain

How far?

@discobot roll 1d10

:game_die: 6

Not bad then, considering it’s 2021 and all that. :2cents:

So basically we’re all fecked then. Ah well. Can the last to leave please switch off the lights?

@discobot fortune

:crystal_ball: Ask again later

Reuters provides a follow-up story (accessed here via the Taipei Times) on “Wilson Edwards,” the fake Swiss scientist invented by the Chinese and shared through f-book to spread disinformation and doubts about COVID investigations implicating the PRC:

Guy

More mischief, this time from the Philippines.

Guy

The allegation could well be nonsense, but an IP address doesn’t prove or disprove anything. I wonder if anyone else has made the same allegation or if there is any evidence for it?

You’ll have to ask Tainan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau, as they are the ones working on this case.

Guy

A nice detailed piece on this topic from today’s Taipei Times:

Guy

Latest sent by Line was most entertaining: how flushing a mask down the commode cleans the pipes.

WTF!

Guy

In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, here’s something to consider:

Guy

With AI challenges ahead of us, new laws to regulate disinformation will absolutely be needed.

Guy

When you get enough people to believe that’s it different versions of the truth (or lies) you have got Russia’s and China’s job done for them.

I see Russians usually respond like this to any reports of bodies, atrocities, rapes, massacres in Ukraine …go to 1420 YouTube channel to see it action .

The Russian govt did a good job of shoving that meme into their head and saying there ain’t such a thing as a fact.