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US-Skepticism: Misinformation and Transnational Conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections

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  • Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert
  • Wang, Austin Horng-En
  • Fang, Yu Sunny

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Taiwan simultaneously has one of the highest freedom of speech indexes yet encounters the largest amount of foreign interference, due to its contentious history with China. Due to the large influx, Taiwan takes a public “crowdsourcing” approach using fact-checking ChatBots and AI to combat misinformation. Combining this public database with large-language models, we investigate misinformation across three platforms (Line, PTT, and Facebook) during the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections. We find most misinformation attacks US-Taiwan relations through visuals and within pan-Blue identity groups. Curiously, we find misinformation rhetoric that references conspiracy groups in the west.

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  • Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert & Wang, Austin Horng-En & Fang, Yu Sunny, 2023. "US-Skepticism: Misinformation and Transnational Conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections," OSF Preprints uefgw, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:uefgw
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/uefgw
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    1. Austin Horng-En Wang & Mei-chun Lee & Min-Hsuan Wu & Puma Shen, 2020. "Influencing overseas Chinese by tweets: text-images as the key tactic of Chinese propaganda," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 469-486, November.
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