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With false information growing daily on platforms like Facebook and LINE, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has drawn up an action plan that targets specific age groups. But what do NGOs and tech companies think of the plan?
The content farm "Mission" is enormously popular with pan-blue supporters, and despite numerous takedowns, continues to rise from the dead. But who's pulling the strings at Mission?
Google, Facebook and LINE claim to have toolkits to stop the spread of disinformation on their platforms. In reality, content farms and propaganda peddlers are way ahead of the game.
A mysterious figure from China, “Boss Evan” has trained dozens of online fraudsters and propaganda peddlers. Now, he’s created an entire platform for anyone to bootstrap their own content farm empire.
In Malaysia, trans-national content farms are “an industry,” says one insider. But why does Malaysian content directed at Taiwan take on so many “Chinese characteristics?”
Messaging app LINE is a haven for health scams, misleading headlines and Chinese government propaganda. In this four part series, The Reporter reveals a trans-national group of schemers behind the all out assault.