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justice system as he announced indictments against 13 of its nationals. in one case, the department ofjustice nationals. in one case, the department of justice accused two chinese intelligence agents of attempted bribery and espionage in america. now on bbc news its hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to this special edition of hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, from the taiwanese capital, taipei. people here in taiwan, which is self governed, live under a constant threat from china, wh...

Investment firm Tiger Global Management LLC, known for its early bets on tech firms like Meta and Spotify, on Friday told limited partners it was targeted in a series of misinformation attacks by a former employee, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Misinformation is best tackled in the open

Given that your own department is the ministry for digital affairs, you need to strengthen taiwans digital protection, so how capable is your infrastructure at withstanding these cyber attacks from china? i would say that we build resilience in order to counter notjust the hard cyber security attacks but also the disinformation, the propaganda, the foreign interference to our elections and so on. so these two go to hand in hand, on the countering disinformation part, we rely on world journalism ...

Prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security to instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. >> how much pressure do you feel right now? >> a profound sense of responsibility and we take this work really, really seriously. >> reporter: facebook is running drills to prepare for the worst. misinformation attacks tempted to sway your vote or s...

Launching a new war room, so it can strike back. >> roughly -- >> reporter: we went behind downloads doors to see how it will work. the goal, prevent another 2016, when russia-linked accounts spread misinformation to millions of facebook users. inside the war room, two dozen teams from security from instagram, representing 20,000 facebook employees, soon to be working 24/7 to track suspicious behavior. >> how much pressure do you feel right now? >> what we feel is a profound sense of responsibil...