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1.新聞網址︰
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https://www.ft.com/content/f22f1011-0630-462a-a21e-83bae4523da7

2.新聞來源︰
金融時報(Finacial Times)


3.完整新聞標題
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台灣的團結在中國假消息的狂轟濫炸下出現裂縫
Taiwan's unity cracks under Chinese disinformation onslaught

4.完整新聞內容︰
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Only a month ago, Taiwan was feeling more at peace with itself than any other
democratic developed nation. On the back of a 16-month-long success in
keeping Covid-19 at bay, 68 per cent felt society was more united than before
the pandemic, a rating topped only by Singapore, according to research
published by the US pollster Pew last week.





That unity is cracking. Although there are no surveys that allow direct
comparisons with the Pew data, Taiwan’s first domestic coronavirus outbreak
has given rise to partisan strife, growing distrust of the government’s
handling of the pandemic and fears fed by rumour-mongering.





Most western democracies have had to deal with internal frictions during the
pandemic. In the US, some rebelled against lockdowns and in Germany, a vocal
movement against vaccination has developed. But it is a riskier path for
Taiwan — for China, which claims the country as part of its territory,
stands ready to seize on divisions.





Global Times, the nationalist tabloid owned by the Communist party’s
mouthpiece People’s Daily, famously wrote in 2016 that China would seek to “
Lebanonise Taiwan” to undermine stability.Beijing’s weapon of choice has
been disinformation. Experts have registered a sharp increase of Chinese
information operations targeting Taiwan since the beginning of the pandemic
last year, but following the recent start of increasing infections and
deaths, those attacks have started to sting.





“Negative stories or fake news about vaccines have dominated the
most-discussed topics we tracked over the past few weeks,” said Yu Chih-hao,
co-director of Information Operations Research Group (IORG), a
non-governmental group that tracks Chinese information manipulation aimed at
Taiwan. The group identified a role of Chinese state media and other Chinese
sources in either creating or spreading them (Beijing has usually labelled
disinformation accusations as themselves “lies and disinformation”).





Late last month the dominant narrative was that the US, Taiwan’s unofficial
protector, was “not selling Taipei a single vial of vaccine”. Earlier this
month, Beijing claimed that tens of thousands of Taiwanese people were
flocking to China to get vaccinated. Then Chinese media reported that Taipei
was planning to give jabs to its diplomatic allies although it did not have
enough to vaccinate its own population. Both claims have been denied by Taiwan
’s government.





Most recently, after Taiwan’s vaccination campaign picked up speed, Chinese
media spread stories of old people dying from the jab. Taiwan’s vaccination
rates have since levelled off as many elderly have grown fearful of
vaccination.

而在台灣疫苗施打開始加速的最近，中國媒體則開始散播老年人因施打疫苗而暴斃的故事
。許多老年人對疫苗接種開始感到恐懼，台灣的疫苗施打率因此開始趨緩。



This has been amplified by Taiwanese media which have focused on elderly
people dying after getting the Covid jab, drawing a causal link the health
authorities say is unscientific.

Analysts say a key pattern through which Chinese disinformation in Taiwan
spreads is that fake news or skewed narratives generated by Chinese trolls or
content farms are passed on through Taiwanese private groups on the messaging
app Line or the online discussion board PTT. That is how they find their way
to mainstream Taiwanese media.




“Once a story gets magnified on TV, it seemingly gains legitimacy,” said
Libby Lange, a former English speech writer and social media manager for
president Tsai Ing-wen who now studies influence operations at Yale. “The
current outbreak of disinformation in Taiwan is throwing in sharp relief the
problem that journalistic rigour is perhaps not what it could be in the
country. That could be very harmful in these times of heightened tension.”

「一但新聞上了電視，似乎就有了正當性，」 現正在耶魯大學攻讀認知作戰（
Influence Operations ）的蔡英文總統前英文演說撰稿人及社交平台經理林莉馨（




Although the country has the second-freest press in Asia after South Korea,
according to Reporters without Borders, RSF describes Taiwan’s media
environment as polarised and “dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of
profit”.





Civil society groups are trying to improve media literacy. IORG is working on
a book Yu hopes can be used to educate middle and high school students how to
judge whether a piece of news is trustworthy. It can only be hoped that
Taiwan has the time to wait for its next generation to develop immunity
against Chinese disinformation trolls.




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※ 40字心得、備註 ※
1. 我很單純，所有有關疫情的新聞都先Google一遍。




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