EDITORIAL: The dangers of disinformation
A Facebook post by TV celebrity Antony Kuo (郭彥均) on Wednesday last week stirred debate about personal, political and moral responsibility, as well as personal loss, freedom of speech, disinformation and cognitive warfare. Kuo’s now-deleted post contained what appeared to be a screenshot of a conversation on a messenger app with a medical professional about the soaring number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan, with one of the accounts saying: “I’ve seen so many children dying like this (看到這多孩子就這樣走).” The post was shared on Twitter, with a comment suggesting that Taiw...
Source: taipeitimes.com