US-Skepticism: Misinformation and Transnational Conspiracy in the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections

Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Austin Horng-En Wang and Yu Sunny Fang

No uefgw, OSF Preprints from Center for Open Science

Abstract: Taiwan simultaneously has one of the highest freedom of speech indexes yet encounters the largest amount of foreign interference, due to its contentious history with China. Due to the large influx, Taiwan takes a public “crowdsourcing” approach using fact-checking ChatBots and AI to combat misinformation. Combining this public database with large-language models, we investigate misinformation across three platforms (Line, PTT, and Facebook) during the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections. We find most misinformation attacks US-Taiwan relations through visuals and within pan-Blue identity groups. Curiously, we find misinformation rhetoric that references conspiracy groups in the west.

Date: 2023-12-20
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