Thank you so much for having us. It was a really fascinating conversation.

Who brings it in?

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More literate.

How do you extend access to broadband, make sure that more and more of your citizens can access social media and traditional media while also working to make sure that they can be responsible users and consumers of media?

When you say it’s a goal to essentially extend broadband to 100 percent of the population, I don’t want to suggest that that shouldn’t be a goal, but you’re also giving malign actors access to more voters, to more citizens.

A colleague and I wrote a paper, which Russell published, about interference in Taiwan’s politics ahead of last November’s elections. One of the things we discuss and we heard repeatedly during trips here was that both the social media environment and the traditional media environment were conducive to disinformation campaigns ...

Can I ask you about your first point about broadband?

Why?

…statement.

It surprises me that that’s a very divisive…

Today and tomorrow, I think our goal is to hear from you and other folks in the government about what Chinese influence ops have been like leading into the January 2020 elections and learn a bit about how they’ve been similar and different to what happened ahead of last November’s ...

It’ll be on the Project 2049 website. What we’re doing here, Mark and Russell have been here for the past few days they can tell you what they’ve been up to.

The ultimate outcome will be a report that we’ll put together looking at similarities and differences and, ultimately, try and put forward some policy proposals, ways to collaborate in order to deal with this issue.

We have a project with the Project 2049 Institute, which Mark leads. My name is Michael Mazza. I’m with the American Enterprise Institute and the Global Taiwan Institute. Russell, as you know, is with the Global Taiwan Institute. This Project 2049 initiative is to put together what we’re calling a ...