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Taiwan FactCheck Center: Discussing the Disinformation Related to Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election Ep 268

Felicia Lin — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:15:21 +0000

With the presidential election in Taiwan fast approaching (on January 13, 2024). We thought it would be a good time to discuss disinformation related to Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election with Summer Chen, the Editor-in-Chief of Taiwan FactCheck Center and Wei-Ping Li, a research fellow at Taiwan FactCheck Center.

We also talked about disinformation that circulated in 2020 around the time of Taiwan’s presidential election and the United States’ presidential election, TFC’s work to combat the spread of disinformation and how the general public can prevent themselves from falling prey to fake news by creating something called a trust circle.

Taiwan FactCheck Foundation (TFC) is a non-profit/non- government organization jointly established by the Association for Quality Journalism and Taiwan Media Watch Foundation in April 2018. In December 2020, TFC legally registered as an independent foundation, Taiwan FactCheck Foundation.

As COVID-19 first broke out in China, TFC was the first fact-checking organization to alert the potential disinformation threat to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) in January 2020, which led to the launch of the biggest ever fact-checking project, CoronaVirusFacts Alliance. The alliance unites more than 100 fact-checkers across the globe and has published more than 10,000 fact-checks surrounding the pandemic.

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

The difference between the terms disinformation and misinformation
Disinformation that was spread about Taiwan’s government donating US $200 million to Israel
How Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC) has joined Facebook’s third party fact checking program and what that means
The difference between a journalist and fact checking organization (or between the media and a fact checking organization)
How TFC collaborates with tech Facebook, Google and messaging apps like LINE (which is popular in Taiwan)
TFC is certified by the IFCN (International Fact Checking Network)
What TFC when disinformation or posts go viral
How people can file a claim or report to debunk or fact check something they see on social media or a messaging app
How people in Taiwan have become aware of suspicious information after having experienced disinformation that happened during the elections in 2018, 2020 and 2023
The Cofacts chatbot that people can use to report disinformation in Taiwan
Fact checking sites that people in Taiwan can use such at MyGoPen
Disinformation related to 2020 elections in Taiwan that TFC debunked
TFC was published a disinformation playbook
How disinformation that could impact Taiwan’s presidential election in January has been spread several months in advance
The misinformation and disinformation observed during Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election
How disinformation related to Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election on Facebook and LINE disappeared around December 25^th when Wuhan went under lockdown
Disinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that floated into Taiwan’s LINE and Facebook groups
How there will be several elections in several different countries around the world in 2024, and the challenge this poses for fact checkers
How it is difficult to confirm the origin of disinformation
How misleading information makes it into Taiwan’s social media networks, message boards and get picked up by journalists and reported as news
How Taiwan FactCheck Center has hosted workshops for journalists to educate them about how to do fact checking
Concerns about AI for fact checkers
The responsibility of media owners and companies to maintain the quality of journalism
The role of AI in creating disinformation
How to debunk AI generated disinformation
How people can evaluate the trustworthiness of information by having several different sources of information and a circle trusted sources and individuals that they can check in with
Reliable fact checking sites
The accuracy and reliability of Wikipedia

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General Yu (于北辰): Former 4-Star General of Taiwan Army Shifts from KMT to Independent Ep 256

Felicia Lin — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:48:32 +0000

I first heard about Yú Běichén (于北辰) otherwise known as “General Yu” at the Taiwanese American Conference in July where he was one of the most popular speakers. General Yu is a retired army general, and now a Taoyuan city councilor, He ran as an independent in the November 2022 elections. I was able to interview General Yu when he was in New York with translation assistance from Winston Liao. This interview would not have been possible without the help of Jacy Chen, Sue Kuo, and Winston Liao. And a very special thanks to Meiling Lin, my mother for her help not only with translation of the interview, but for her assistance with research and preparation for this episode.

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

General Yu’s upbringing and how he started his career in the military
How Taiwan has changed militarily during his 30-something years in the military
His thoughts on how to maintain peace for Taiwan
If people are willing and able to defend Taiwan if attacked by China
How China has invited Taiwanese soldiers, including General Yu to visit and has offered them favors and opportunities
The 2013 case of Hung Chung-chiu, who was a 24-year-old military conscript who died three days before the end of his compulsory military service and how General Yu was asked to step in after this incident and make some reforms
General Yu’s thoughts on the Sunflower Movement
General Yu’s comments and thought on presidential candidates who have suggested another cross-strait service and trade agreement
General Yu’s thought on the Kumointang and how it needs to change
The importance of Taiwan having a healthy, normal democracy
The veterans group that General Yu used be a director of
How General Yu’s identity shifted from seeing himself as Chinese to Taiwanese

Taiwanese Census Campaign Challenges the Pew Research Center: Our Interview with Christina Hu and Chieh-Ting Yeh Ep 148

Felicia Lin — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:28:54 +0000

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

In April of this year, reports published by the Pew Research Center analyzing Asian American communities included footnotes stating that data for “Chinese” includes those identifying as ‘Taiwanese.” Soon after, in May, the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign published an open letter and petition on TaiwaneseAmerican.org asking Pew Research to issue an apology to the Taiwanese American community, and to re-publish its findings with Taiwanese as a separate category.

Upon hearing this, I reached out to Christina Hu, Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign asking to interview her about this. She was working on getting an apology and correction from Pew, so I agreed to wait until she got an official response from Pew to do the interview.

For months, the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign team worked on getting a response from Pew Research and by July Christina told me that she was hoping to get an official response.

On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Pew Research reissued their report on Asian American communities which had previously misrepresented the Taiwanese. To be clear it was a correction, not an apology. Data for 2000, 2010 and 2019 included the categories of “Chinese, with Taiwanese,” “Taiwanese,” “Chinese, except Taiwanese” and “Okinawan.”

I spoke with Christina Hu, the Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign and Chieh-ting Yeh, the Media Director of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign about what transpired after the Taiwanese American community’s response to Pew Research’s initial report on Asian communities, and what led to Pew to re-issue their report.

We also spoke about the 2020 Write in Taiwanese Campaign and the decades long advocacy work of the Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL), that started in 1990 to educate the Taiwanese American community to complete the US Census by not only checking the “Other Asian” box, but also writing in “Taiwanese.”

The Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign Team:

Christina Hu

Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Director of Civic Engagement, Taiwanese American Citizens League

Chieh-Ting Yeh

Media Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Editor-in-Chief, Ketagalan Media

Leona Chen

Creative Director, Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

Editor-in-Chief, TaiwaneseAmerican.org

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

How Christina got involved in the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
How Ting (Chieh-ting) got involved in the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
The background and history of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign
The evolution of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign since it started in1990
Why it’s important to be counted on the U.S. census
It wasn’t until 1960 that people could select their own race on the U.S. census
Why it is important for Taiwanese Americans to be counted on the U.S. census
How the Pew Research Reports which used U.S. census data misrepresented the Taiwanese
The Pew Research Report on Asian American communities that included a footnote stating that data for “ ‘Chinese’ includes those identifying as ‘Taiwanese.’ ”
The communications that the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign and Christina had with Pew Research and Neil Ruiz, the Associate Director of Race and Ethnicity
The open letter and online petition (posted on TaiwaneseAmerican.org) asking Pew Research to issue an apology to the Taiwanese American community, and to re-publish its findings with Taiwanese as a separate category
The various groups that signed the online petition and supported the Taiwanese American community’s campaign to ask Pew Research for an apology and correction of their reports that did not include Taiwanese as a separate category
How Christina discovered that the Pew Research report had disappeared Okinawans as a separate category
What happened in the four months that the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign tried to get an official response from Pew Research
The conversations that Christina had with Neil Ruiz about why it was important for her personally, to identify as Taiwanese, and why Pew could say they were confused by self-reported data from the Taiwanese American community that unequivocally indicated that people wanted to be identified as Taiwanese
The slogan of the Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign

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Taiwanese Census Campaign Challenges the Pew Research Center: Our Interview with Christina Hu and Chieh-Ting Yeh Ep 148

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