Whenever there is a trending rumor that starts to spread, within one hour, each ministry in Taiwan is equipped with a team that can push out a counter narrative that doesn’t say that the old one is vicious or is harmful or is whatever because research shows that if you do that -- in Taiwan, we call slapping the face or 打臉 -- it would just reinforce whatever belief that the person spreading the disinformation already have in their mind.

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