This time, Beijing is cooperating with 20 Taiwanese media companies to advertise 26 measures that China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) announced on Monday last week, the source said. The 20 Web sites, along with three others, in July also published an article by the TAO vilifying Tsai and her administration, the source said. Tsai in July said China’s use of proxy Web sites in Taiwan is part of its information war against the nation and is a threat to the nation’s democracy. Authorities are investigating whether the Web sites contravened the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法) or the National Security Act (國家安全法) by posting articles for the TAO, the source said. Web sites acting as mouthpieces for Beijing fall outside the scope of free speech and are a national security issue, National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Journalism professor Flora Chang (張錦華) said on Saturday.

Source: Taipei Times November 10, 2019 15:59 UTC