Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/10/18
By: By Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, Oct. 18 (CNA) Responding proactively and making the decision-making process
Audrey Tang (唐鳳)
transparent are among the government’s approaches to countering the spread of misinformation and disinformation, digital minister Audrey Tang (唐鳳) said Thursday.
In a keynote speech at an international workshop on media literacy, Tang cited a line in a Leonard Cohen song that shows he saw the influence campaigns facing democracies in the digital age as hope in darkness.
“There is a crack in everything, and that’s how the light gets in,” Tang quoted from “Anthem” at the 2018 Global Cooperation and Training Framework (GCTF) International Workshop co-hosted by the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD).
“Here we are facing a crack in our democracy through disinformation, misinformation and different kinds of ways to undermine trust in our democratic institutions,” Tang said.
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