At the end of the election campaign, Han’s Facebook account had accumulated 500,000 followers, twice that of Chen’s, while an unofficial Facebook group called “Han Kuo-yu Fans For Victory! Holding up a Blue Sky!” created on April 10 last year had more than 61,000 members by election day, he wrote. Members of the unofficial group “promoted Han through posting talking points, memes, and very often fake news attacking Han’s opponent Chen, the DPP government, and anyone who said a bad word about Han,” he wrote. Two of the LinkedIn profiles wrote in their descriptions the phrase “worked in public relations for many foreign companies,” he wrote. Huang wrote that while there is “no evidence Han himself colluded with this group or any other,” he was “certainly aware that his support online was somewhat mysterious.”

Source: Taipei Times June 27, 2019 15:56 UTC