
So, as the Ministry of Digital Affairs, we tried something different. In March 2024 we launched the Alignment Assembly on information integrity by sending 200,000 text messages to random numbers around Taiwan. We call it a lottocracy: if you win the lottery of receiving the SMS, you become a representative in the assembly — like a juror — to steer the advertisement-recommendation system together. We received thousands of valid responses. Then, by stratified random sampling, we selected 447 people mirroring our population — the same demographic breakdown by gender, education, place of residence, occupation, and so on.