China targets Taiwan with new disinformation campaign

More than 400 fake accounts are targeting Taiwanese on social media and they specialise in posting fake news and disinformation to undermine the COVID-19 measures implemented by Taiwan`s health authorities.

Beijing: China is conducting disinformation campaigns against Taiwan by infiltrating social media, internet forums and online chatrooms to subvert the public`s trust in the government. It further said that it is trying to destabilize society and meddle in elections.

According to Investigation Bureau, more than 400 fake accounts are targeting Taiwanese on social media, reported Taipei Times. Chinese content farms use hundreds of fake accounts to reach `every corner of society,` an official at the Investigation Bureau said.

Since it started tracing fake accounts and disinformation to Chinese content farms in April last year, the Information and Communication Security Division investigated 2,773 such cases, the bureau said. It has forwarded 174 cases to prosecutors, who have listed 234 people as suspects, the bureau added, reported Taipei Times.