PRC targets Taiwan with new disinformation ploy‘STIRRING CONFLICT’: Chinese content farms use hundreds of fake accounts to reach ‘every corner of society,’ an official at the Investigation Bureau saidBy Chien Li-chung / Staff reporterChina is conducting disinformation campaigns that involve more than 400 fake accounts targeting Taiwanese on social media, the Investigation Bureau said on Friday. Since it started tracing fake accounts and disinformation to Chinese content farms in April last year, the Information and Communication Security Division investigated 2,773 such cases, the bureau said. “These are clearly products of China’s content farms.”The bureau also uncovered that Chinese accounts had altered posts on the People’s Technology Temple (PTT) — Taiwan’s most popular online bulletin board system. The second level of the content farms’ operations involves targeting Taiwanese Facebook users with 400 fake accounts, the official said. Those accounts target Taiwanese by reposting fake news and disinformation, focusing on topics such as entertainment, daily issues and religion, they said.

Source: Taipei Times January 24, 2022 02:24 UTC