Our main challenge in the previous election is that is also the referendum day. The Referendum Act, which is a different act, says that you can still campaign on the referendum day. Our election law says that you cannot campaign for your candidate on the election day, but they are ...

The social sector, and then also, the social sector doesn’t have to be, they can work with profit. They just cannot work for profit, but they can work with profit. It indeed could be profitable to work on the sustainable goals. This entire social entrepreneurship, social innovation thing is an ...

I think we can start by just renaming things. If an organization insists that I am non government, it creates a distance. If an organization insists that we’re nonprofit, it creates a distance to the other sectors. If we are saying that we’re going to do a public private partnership, ...

A tri sectoral partnership.

That’s right.

If they are somewhat spiritual, they also understand the virtue of this approach.

They are all facing a very different challenge, because instead of the UK parliamentary tradition of free speech and the idea of liberty, here, our idea is about common understanding. It’s about doing no harm. It’s about the middle way. This approach resonates, I think, with mostly the social sector, ...

We offered them an alternate model, and they asked for English translation for all of our related materials. So far as I know, they are still deliberating. We also share it to our Japanese friends, Malaysian friends, and virtually ever other, Indonesian friends, also. Everyone in our nearby jurisdiction is ...

That, indeed, is something that would fit their cultural tradition, but they also have another cultural tradition that talks about Ahimsa, “not harming.” That talks about the middle way. That’s our approach. Their spiritual tradition agrees with our approach, while their recent political tradition maybe agrees with the Singaporean approach.

It’s after the election, but sometimes, it’s difficult. They really want the society to heal. I think that part resonates the most. Even the ministries, the agencies’ people, I think we met people from their judicial as well as their Digital, Economic, and Society Ministry, MODES, and so on. They ...

In my workshop in Thailand, where only I speak, and without the operational people, I think all the parties of Thailand came, and pretty senior at that. They are all, it’s just post election for them. Each of them have been harmed by disinformation. Fact check has been weaponized. You ...

Great question. I gave a public speech in Bangkok, and we’re about to run a workshop there, bringing in people from Cofact, from the NDC platform, and so on. I’m just the philosopher here. They have to share their operational details. They are very interested in a working level relationship. ...

Yes.

It’s fine.

10 minutes or so.

Media literacy in the curriculum, using films like this. That’s it. We use an epidemic metaphor approach in our administration. We use our counter spam experiences, and we rely on the social sector and civic tech to complete the picture. We never use that as an excuse to make a ...

It’s just called The World Between Us. I think it’s distributed by HBO Asia. If you ask HBO, you will probably get a copy. In Japanese, their title is even better. They just translated it “How Close Is Evil?”

It might be. It might be, yeah.

Just made it very, very popular. People who have watched this TV series are inoculated. They no longer see fabricated disinformation as something that they have to just instinctively repeat. They will ask themselves, “Oh, then am I participating in evil?” The Mandarin title is literally “The Distance Between Us ...

It teach media literary in a very succinct way of how framing works, how fact checking works, how media bias perpetuates itself, how pressures from advertisers work, how content moderation works, and so on. All in all, using a very compelling, and on IMDb, 95 percent approval, first rate cast.

They basically teach media literacy by having the perpetrator of the mass shooting’s younger sister working anonymously, because she had to change her name after the mass shooting, in a TV news broadcast channel that covers this. It’s complicated point, but it shows, and every part in the 10 part ...

“The World Between Us,” for example, sponsored by the public TV -- now, I think, airing and trending on Japanese viewership through HBO Asia -- is a 10 part, hour long series that follows the aftermath of a mass shooting, where the fates of all parties involved are intertwined.

That puts media literacy, critical, creative thinking right in the first primary grade, and all the way through K 12.

That takes effect last week. I was a co-developer, so I am really happy about that.

Line invited Dr. Tsai, our president, and said that she is their first, like a model digital citizen. Mostly because she is not taking things down from that platform, but rather, promoting the cross sectoral clarifications. Finally, that’s the second proactive defense. The third proactive defense is just to use ...

Right. The third line of proactive defense is just to make it headline news. It’s to make it really funny. You don’t have to wait for people to click add disinformation and show them a related link. The clarification by itself is a funny message. [laughs] Just give it a ...

Taiwan Fact Check Center says it is not true that a dog’s odor can prevent cancer. If you smell your dog more, there is less chance of getting cancer. That is false.

This one?

It may come from the Taiwan Fact Check Center. The declaration of Alaska independence is false. It’s right here, right? [laughs] Like many, many other things. Actually, it’s mostly health related.

Then they have also a social media part called Line Today, where they surface the funniest stories for people to see. If you look at LINE Today, then you will see that the first section is entertainment and gossiping. Then the daily news and disinformation clarification. Clarification is put actually ...

Finally, the third line of proactive is to make the flagging platform, like Line messaging where Cofact operations. Line now have their official count. It’s just like a report as spam used to be a browser extension, but then Gmail start building it in, or advertisement blockers started as extension. ...

The only requirement is that we put it on this platform, SayIt, or YouTube. SayIt is, again, a mySociety contribution, [laughs] which we are actually taking over maintainership now to add new features. That’s our second line of proactive defense.

People understand, even if we decide not to do some policy, there’s a reason for it. Then the social sector can pick it up. That, again, builds solidarity, instead of for rumor, for misinformation to grow. If people do have doubts, they can meet me for 40 minutes every Wednesday ...

If we prevent misunderstanding from growing in the first place, like between the environmental and business values, then there is no way for disinformation campaigners to use that as a topic. That’s our first line of proactive defense. Just to wit, our transcript will be part of this. [laughs] Even ...

When you have participated in a meeting like this, which is at least twice a month, then there is no way for rumor to grow. Everybody understand the entire context of…The disinformation campaigns are opportunistic. You have to first have misunderstanding for them to act. When they act, it usually ...

Hepatitis B is now cured. You have very accessible drugs that just clean the virus, and it makes everything go away. Original social purpose is gone, and they very much are willing to use compostable material, for example, sugarcane recyclable materials, to make straws. We reached a consensus of a ...

It used to be that many years ago, decades ago, they enter the business because hepatitis B was spreading in Taiwan. That was the only way to prevent the virus from spreading.

We do have an e petition platform, so our Greta [laughs] did not get to strike on Fridays, but rather, sat down with the EPA, as well as all the utensil makers that use plastics and non recyclable material to make those one shot use things, spoons, straws, and so ...

First of all, we have a participation officer team in every ministry that is in charge of not just clarifying things, but also listening. Listening means that 5,000 people petitioning for the banning of the plastic straws, for example. That was two years ago led by a 16 year girl. ...

Then we’re saying to the platforms, “OK, that might be our oversight. Maybe we should include you in the first place.” Now, we’re amending that, and they will be treated as campaign donations for radical transparency. That’s our three lines of defense. They are all reactive. Three proactive things.

After that, you can already look in the Control Yuan’s website, the entire raw data of the previous mayoral election, and each individual record of donation, enabling independent journalists to make investigative reports. That’s really good, but that also forces foreign money to pour into the precision targeting platforms, because ...

…possible day, so it never gets completed. After the Sunflower movement, and after the Tsai Ing wen administration, the wind changes, because the party negotiations in the parliament is now also live streamed. Then they cannot refuse to put that into the agenda, so it did pass that law.

They are like, “OK, OK, we will just put it to the legislation,” so they did. The legislators always schedule it in and push it on the last…

Finally, we, as in the civic tech community, walked in and printed the A4 papers. Using CAPTCHAs to crowdsource the OCR of those individual records and put on our own CSV files. The Control Yuan was like, “But you can’t be sure that this is 100 percent correct, even if ...

They only publish the summary, like a transparency report, of their work. This time, speaking as a civic tech hacktivist, we have campaigned really hard for the Control Yuan to publish the entire raw data as open data on open data of platform for everybody to independently analyze. They were ...

That’s right, that’s right. Our campaign finance act is actually the most transparent in the world. First, we have a separate branch to track that. It’s called the Control Branch. It’s independent of the judicial and independent of the legislative. What the Control Yuan did do is that they look ...

Facebook has helped. They already implemented a system for honest declaration in Taiwan. Currently, it’s opt in, because the law has not passed, but we expect it to pass for the next election.

Essentially, we must treat them as campaign donations, with the same transparency. Just like campaign donations in Taiwan cannot be donated by foreign people, if we track the advertisement sponsorship to an extra jurisdictional source, then the person who accepted that is a citizen, including the platform companies, will be ...

I don’t really understand the logic, [laughs] but we didn’t have that precedent, so it’s easier for us to pass the same act here. We took that almost word for word from the US, and say, in this parliamentary session, which starts today, that we’re going to pass the Honest ...

There was a weird legal precedent that says that if your message is small as a pin, and therefore cannot fit a declaration, then they are exempted. Facebook somehow say bits are small.