TPP to pursue legal action over ‘fabricated’ tapeBy Huang Ching-yu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday said it would pursue legal action against people who allegedly fabricated and disseminated a recording of TPP Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) commenting on Vice President William Lai’s (賴清德) stopovers in the US. Taiwan People’s Party spokesman Adam Lee, second left, speaks to reporters in Taipei yesterday. Photo courtesy of the Taiwan People’s PartyThe e-mail said that the recording was made during an internal TPP meeting in the first week of this month. At a news conference yesterday, TPP spokesman Adam Lee (李頂立) said the voice in the recording was “clearly not Ko.”The TPP would pursue legal action, but is first investigating who made the recording, how it was made and who disseminated it, he said. If investigated through legal channels, it would show that all political parties — not just the one in power — are affected by misinformation, he said.
