Presidential Office interfering with press freedom: KMTBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterThe Presidential Office is interfering with press freedom by asking the media not to cite information from files after a suspected cyberattack on the office, Institute of Revolutionary Practice director Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) said yesterday. At a news conference at the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) headquarters in Taipei, Lo, who served as deputy secretary-general of the Presidential Office during former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration, and other KMT members accused the office of trying to suppress the media. “When did the Presidential Office become the media’s superior agency, with the ability to order the media to use or not to use [a document]?” Lo asked. Former Presidential Office deputy secretaries-general Lo Chih-chiang, left, and Hsiao Hsu-tsen, of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), yesterday discuss a suspected cyberattack on the Presidential Office at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Taipei. That night, the Presidential Office said the documents had been doctored, and asked the media not to quote their contents.

Source: Taipei Times May 19, 2020 15:56 UTC