Han is Beijing’s favoured candidate while Tsai’s party has been campaigning on the slogan: “Resist China, Defend Taiwan”. In a televised debate with her rivals for the job on Sunday, Tsai said China’s “expanding ambitions” were the biggest threat to its democracy. Fake social media accounts also share pro-Beijing content or inflate the number of likes such content gets. The party in office is trying to pass a law that would prohibit support from foreign “infiltration sources” to a political party. It’s still the very beginning,” said Summer Chen, of Taiwan FactCheck Center which works on debunking disinformation on Facebook.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 05:01 UTC