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Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@mato.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 08:44:07 JST Ecologia Digital

"The rise of #disinformation online and its impact on deliberative democracies is among the more consequential socio-political and technological problems of our times. However, a government-controlled body [in #India] that acts as the primary arbiter of online news about itself is prima facie an act in bad faith, where the government can unilaterally determine what online content about it should be available."
https://www.techpolicy.press/india-and-taiwans-divergent-paths-to-combat-online-disinformation/
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  Amber Sinha compares India's Fact Check Unit with Taiwan's 'whole of society' approach to fighting disinformation.
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  Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@mato.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 08:44:12 JST Ecologia Digital
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  "In #Taiwan, a key techno-political challenge in the last decade has been to respond to Chinese propaganda. In Taiwan, the public and government both now view the threats to trust posed by #disinformation as existential threats from China and the government has responded with a ‘whole of society’ approach.
  The Taiwanese response to disinformation also involves an active role played by the state and raises questions about the appropriate #RoleOfGovernments."
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  1. "One prong of this strategy is to increase transparency with a host of initiatives, including seeking the participation of the innovativeg0v (gov-zero) project. This team joined the government to create the Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS) and launched the consensus-building project, vTaiwan and its graphic avatar, Polis, which found a structured way for public forum discussions to inform policy decisions. This digital infrastructure was vital in responding to disinformation, where an unconventional team, including graphic designers and comedy writers inside the government, would create memes directly responding to fake news. The Taiwanese response to disinformation also involves an active role played by the state and raises questions about the appropriate role of governments. One may question why the Taiwanese approach was hailed by the liberal media, while FCU in India has come in for criticism if they both involve state actors responding to online disinformation. There are three differences that are critical here. First, the Taiwanese model of rebutting fake news and creating counter-narratives is in direct contrast to a more authoritarian response that involves censorship and takedown of content in India. Second, the way in which the response evolved in Taiwan was bottom-up, with a citizen and civil society campaign being adopted and further empowered by the government. These concerted efforts can work only in an environment of high levels of public trust."
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