This one I think is mine.
Taiwan has a digital minister, you. What’s your job exactly? What do you do as a digital minister of Taiwan?
Talk to me.
I think better to your screen.
You did? [laughs]
It’s like a poem. [laughs]
Would you today write the same job description as three years ago, or would you change something?
How does it go, the new poem? Also job description?
This sounds like those Japanese haikus.
…the meaning of it?
Ah yeah.
A lot of meaning in those few lines.
As a digital minister, what worries you the most?
What about the upcoming elections? What role does social media play in the upcoming elections?
How does social media work in Taiwan? Does it work a little bit differently from other countries or is it same-same?
What does this mean if you have more streaming and not only text?
On social media, does this have a impact then, for example, on all those topics like fake news? Do you have less fake news because everybody’s more streaming versus the other thing? Less possible because it is live streamed?
I forgot about deepfakes.
So the problem with the video?
Is this also something which went viral in Taiwan?
You mean Hanyu Pinyin is in Mandarin, not Cantonese?
Is the fake news problem bigger in Taiwan because people are using more picture and more video?
What does this mean for the upcoming election? Everybody is extensively using social media, people from Han’s party, but also Tsai’s. Everybody’s using social media. Does this also mean that the whole presidential elections are going to be quite harsher and also angry?
We have those people from Han’s party who are accusing the opposite of fake news and also vice versa. I get the impression that it’s quite heated.
Say this again?
How does this work? Is this one of the means how you protect against fake news? In every ministry is only having a look at the fake…
Is it the trending ones or just the trending ones concerning that ministry?
The people from the ministry, they don’t themselves do the monitoring? The people are doing the monitoring, and then they will respond?
Do you have a good example from the past?
It’s then also approved by the minister himself and his team?
Can we also have a closer look at this piece?
We are doing it afterwards or shall we already do it?
I’ll just make a note.
The hair scene.
Yeah, the hair thing, the whole thing, maybe your whole lines in the beginning to have a bit of close-ups and everything.
How many people are doing this for you? I read somewhere five people.
Do you also have another example, for example, something which is also connected to the elections?
They’re doing it themselves?
When it comes to fake news, this is one of the main tools you have, or are there other tools?
How big is, in general, trolling a problem in Taiwan, especially when it’s concerned to China and foreign countries?
Yeah.
Are there also such trolling farms when it comes to questions concerning Hong Kong?
Is there something that it can do to hold that propaganda and re-target it, let’s say, for the Taiwanese market and China?
For the Taiwanese…
What’s for you the difference between disinformation and mal-information?
What’s the message behind it?
For example, such kind of a message, did this get to the people, to the Taiwanese?
For example, this one got 160 shares.
Through this whole fact-checking work, how many cases are your people or the people in the other ministry dealing with when it comes to China and Taiwan? It is a lot?
This was also one that already trended?
