We intend to keep it this way, which is why we don’t use the F word, fake news. In Taiwan, news and journalism translates to the same Mandarin word, xinwen. Journalism is literally news work. Both my parents are journalists. Due to filial piety, I cannot use the F word, because then it will be like talking bad things about journalists. So we use disinformation.

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