TPP urges probe of Executive YuanFAKE NEWS: Lai Hsiang-ling urged the Control Yuan to probe whether the Executive Yuan hired staffers to create placards or memes in a bid to spread false informationBy Hsieh Chun-lin and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) caucus yesterday urged the Control Yuan to investigate whether the Executive Yuan breached administrative neutrality by launching smear campaigns against opposition parties. Members of the Taiwan People’s Party caucus file a case with the Control Yuan yesterday against former Executive Yuan spokesman Ting Yi-ming and his staff, accusing them of breaching administrative neutrality. TPP caucus whip Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶) urged the Control Yuan to probe whether the Executive Yuan hired staff to create placards or memes in a bid to spread false information, and whether the office of the Executive Yuan spokesman has been downgraded to a mouthpiece of the government. In response, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Meng-yen (李孟諺), who is filling the post vacated by Ting, said that the Executive Yuan has always seen clarifying untrue or misleading information as one of its main responsibilities. In any cases of careless or misleading information, the Executive Yuan would promptly issue corrections and not shy away from apologizing, Li added.

Source: Taipei Times November 17, 2020 16:07 UTC