Yeah, in the cryptocurrency industry. I would like to learn is there an official strategy and what does Taiwan make such a big player, and what is the acceptance of the population? Do you follow a strategy to encourage people to trade on cryptocurrencies, or is it more like a phenomenon of a few people?
My question is rather different from these specific topics, I would like to know from you if you could implement whatever you wanted to in Germany, our political landscape in Germany, our society, what would you do? What would your recommendations be?
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We’ve prepared a very small gift…
Thank you for answering our questions.
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Thank you.
How did you track that? Where did you pull the numbers?
I would [ask if you said how do you track it, but you have a lot of people working on this? So for example, if you find something that’s…
Yeah and how does the minister then make a comment so quickly, how do you coordinate all that?
Intentional harmful untruth. Talk a little bit about the harmful, and how you are defining it, and allowances for allowing that word to evolve over time and harmful.
How would you deal with a president who engages in disinformation?
Minister Tang, g0v probably a new thing for most of the audience here, so…
Is it voluntary among government officials, so that you’re not required to put it there, just whatever people want to share, they put in there?
I can just put a pull request, and make an edit, and someone approves it, or I get to merge it back myself?
Do you encounter problems with what you started out with, about disinformation, so that someone who has access to this can come in and put something in that might be harmful to the government or false, and then people then get confused on what is actually the reality of what they’re seeing there?
Or it’s a real person or…
Can’t block everyone.
Do you have any demographic on who’s likely to report spam, does it share across ages, or different…
Can you also create using, for instance, the riots/demonstrations in Hong Kong, and how that is being treated on social media, and how your system works in using that as an example?
How are you, or using your system, or the dissemination of information in Taiwan, I’m not talking about Hong Kong, I’m talking about that as an incident, and how is that, how are you using your system, to fact check the news in Taiwan in that…
We also deal with that here.
This digital transparency is not applying in the political foreign policy world at all? OK.
I’m trying to understand.
What do you mean for example if you saw a reputable source that reported something, say the “New York Times” reported about something happening in Hong Kong, but then someone in Taiwan, that supposedly has misrepresented something that happened elsewhere, that wouldn’t be really part of what you’re doing…
CIB? CIB is…
Using an example…
Excuse me one second.
Using an example in this country, was a conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the United States. He was born in Kenya. That’s trying not to be a readily identifiable fact when you search and find a birth certificate. Would that be viewed, that type of an inquiry, would that be viewed as too political outside the scope of…
It does concern politics, and it does…
It concerns elections, it does effect credibility of who’s saying it.
I’m just trying to understand the reach…
Of the system, what you do and do not do.
Probably.
One of the areas that’s interesting is some of the definitions of these things. I just wonder, are you borrowing a definition of CIB or have you created your own, and if the later, how did you think about that? For example, what counts as coordinated?
On face, some things are very obvious, from my perspective, some things are very obviously coordinating and inauthentic, but there is debate especially in the fact check community around what reaches that level. I just wonder how you…?
All right, it’s become less of a definition and more of a practice?
…for interpretation.
Awesome.
Minister?
You mentioned earlier about every ministry, 23 ministries had this kind of a core unit…
Coordinated, had be required to respond to this kind of disinformation.
In one hour.
You are talking about another track of this fact-checking things, that is a voluntary basis. How do these two…
Yeah.
When you were able to find, because when we were in Taiwan last year after the local election, and I remember hearing people discussing this about these I don’t know if I want to call them foreign actors, but this disingenuous advertising that couldn’t be attributed. Were you able with working with Facebook or other social media to get some information on who was doing these kinds of things?
For future elections…
…presidential election.
You said you fine the actual candidate? That they get a…
