By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterCtiTV News has been fined NT$600,000 (US$20,033) for broadcasting a false statement by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Tainan City Councilor Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) in one of its political talk shows, the National Communications Commission said yesterday. Viewers had complained about an episode of News Tornado (新聞龍捲風) aired on June 24 last year, the commission said. Hsieh’s comments were determined to be rumors intended to cause panic, the commission said. “In this case, the host should have pressed Hsieh for evidence to support his claims, but failed to do so,” it said. CtiTV has been fined a total of NT$5.63 million for contravening the act 11 times since last year, he said, adding that seven of the infractions were related to coverage of Han.

Source: Taipei Times January 15, 2020 16:01 UTC