Certainly. So, we were already setting up the new Ministry of Digital Affairs, we even had a new website already online and were all very excited and then all hell broke loose exactly as you said. For example, hate messages featuring Speaker Pelosi outside of the signboards of the Taiwan Rail Station, even in convenience stores at 7-Eleven. And when people look at those hate messages thinking, “Oh, have the railroad been hacked in,” and so on, they got a lot of influence operations, rumor mills, propaganda on social media. And when journalists tried to check the ministry’s websites, well, they were very slow to respond because there’s denial-of-service attacks and a lot of different websites and so on from the schools to government ministries and so on simply become defaced or otherwise malfunctioning.

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