Is China a Target for China's Disinformation Campaign?

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China is one of the biggest targets for china disinformation and propaganda campaign. How has it seemingly weathered the storm, you have a bunch of powerful ideas about how you are ableto mitigate some of that. We look at the inphidemic like an epidemic. One is domestic, which often stands from outrage, which is one-of the most potent emotions. And so for the first part, which is just outrage, i'll use one concrete example to illustrate our wit of countering it, which is called humor over rumor.

Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video of all conversations between lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public immediately. Conspiracy theories are acted upon within two hours and replaced by humorous videos that clarify the truth. Imagine that expressing outrage about your local political environment turned into a participatory process where you were invited to solve that problem and even entered into a face to face group workshop. Does that sound impossible? It’s ambitious and optimistic, but that's everything that our guest this episode, Audrey Tang, digital minister of Taiwan, has been working on in her own country for many years. Audrey’s path into public service began in 2014 with her participation in the Sunflower Movement, a student-led protest in Taiwan’s parliamentary building, and she’s been building on that experience ever since, leading her country into a future of truly participatory digital democracy.