2024 Jan W1 – 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election Information Manipulation AI Observation Report

Insights on Manipulation Strategies

This week, we detected a significant number of potentially AI-generated scandalous videos, which were disseminated with the assistance of troll groups. Their aim was tarnishing the image of specific candidates.

Chinese state-affiliated media outlets this week heavily focused on topics such as “Taiwan Strait crisis” and the “high-end vaccine scandal.” troll groups followed suit, amplifying discussions related to these issues in public opinion.

In this analysis, we observed the creation of likely fake Facebook pages that initially attract the general public with video content before shifting to sharing political topics to influence readers.

Some accounts simultaneously operated on domestic and international events, with discourse highly resembling Chinese state-affiliated media (similarity scores of 42.6% and 37.2%). They actively participated in the current presidential election through Facebook groups #61009 and #61019. This week, their activities were less focused on the Ko Wen-je fan page and were primarily centered around specific candidates and the incumbent president’s fan pages, with a discourse primarily aimed at attacking a particular political party.

In the National Defense Ministry’s national-level alert event, fake accounts systematically shared information within social groups to promote the government and the ruling party in the upcoming elections.

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