Taipei Times
AsiaPac · 11 mins ago
Net users spread S Korea voting fraud claims
AFP, HONG KONG Taiwanese social media are seeing a wave of claims that China interfered with South Korea’s recent elections, sharing concerns about possible interference in Taiwan’s own elections this year.Fact-checkers debunked disinformation concerning South Korea’s municipal races last month, which played on anti-China sentiment to fuel rumors about hacking and vote-rigging.The wave of posts shows the speed with which speculation from one country can spread to another, enabled by easy translation tools that make posts accessible to all. Protesters call for the suspension of ballot counting outside a counting station in Seoul on June 5. Photo: AFP Some of the most viral disinformation about South Korea’s elections first spread in Korean before being translated to Chinese, where it sprout
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