Yeah, certainly. I think part of Taiwan’s main countermeasure against not just the pandemic, which is also co-created, but also, the infodemic - foreign interference and information manipulation. In many other jurisdictions, we see the state assuming a more censoring role or a surveillance role, and it becomes, if you’re a journalist or media practitioner, sometimes it creates this tension where the journalist says something, but the state, because it’s not agreeable with the state’s ideologies or things like that, then restricts the journalistic freedom in the name of countering information manipulation.

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