Why?
Is it a big problem or a not-so-big problem?
But everyone say that China is trying to interfere in the social media, Taiwan, it’s maybe about the elections, the general one. What of your people?
Do you have an example what’s the post which trended the most?
This was also one that already trended?
Through this whole fact-checking work, how many cases are your people or the people in the other ministry dealing with when it comes to China and Taiwan? It is a lot?
For example, this one got 160 shares.
For example, such kind of a message, did this get to the people, to the Taiwanese?
What’s the message behind it?
What’s for you the difference between disinformation and mal-information?
For the Taiwanese…
Is there something that it can do to hold that propaganda and re-target it, let’s say, for the Taiwanese market and China?
Are there also such trolling farms when it comes to questions concerning Hong Kong?
Yeah.
How big is, in general, trolling a problem in Taiwan, especially when it’s concerned to China and foreign countries?
When it comes to fake news, this is one of the main tools you have, or are there other tools?
They’re doing it themselves?
Do you also have another example, for example, something which is also connected to the elections?
How many people are doing this for you? I read somewhere five people.
Yeah, the hair thing, the whole thing, maybe your whole lines in the beginning to have a bit of close-ups and everything.
The hair scene.
I’ll just make a note.
We are doing it afterwards or shall we already do it?
Can we also have a closer look at this piece?
It’s then also approved by the minister himself and his team?
Do you have a good example from the past?
The people from the ministry, they don’t themselves do the monitoring? The people are doing the monitoring, and then they will respond?
Is it the trending ones or just the trending ones concerning that ministry?
How does this work? Is this one of the means how you protect against fake news? In every ministry is only having a look at the fake…
Say this again?
We have those people from Han’s party who are accusing the opposite of fake news and also vice versa. I get the impression that it’s quite heated.
What does this mean for the upcoming election? Everybody is extensively using social media, people from Han’s party, but also Tsai’s. Everybody’s using social media. Does this also mean that the whole presidential elections are going to be quite harsher and also angry?
Is the fake news problem bigger in Taiwan because people are using more picture and more video?
You mean Hanyu Pinyin is in Mandarin, not Cantonese?
Is this also something which went viral in Taiwan?
So the problem with the video?
I forgot about deepfakes.
On social media, does this have a impact then, for example, on all those topics like fake news? Do you have less fake news because everybody’s more streaming versus the other thing? Less possible because it is live streamed?
What does this mean if you have more streaming and not only text?
How does social media work in Taiwan? Does it work a little bit differently from other countries or is it same-same?
What about the upcoming elections? What role does social media play in the upcoming elections?
As a digital minister, what worries you the most?
A lot of meaning in those few lines.
Ah yeah.
…the meaning of it?
This sounds like those Japanese haikus.
How does it go, the new poem? Also job description?
Would you today write the same job description as three years ago, or would you change something?
It’s like a poem. [laughs]
You did? [laughs]
