2023 Dec W1 – 2024 Taiwan Presidential Election Information Manipulation AI Observation Report

Insights on Manipulation Strategies

After the failure of the KMT-TPP collaboration, the top active troll account groups (PTT #60011, Facebook #61009 and Facebook #61019) intensified solely attacking Democratic Progressive Party. Before the failure of KMT-TPP collaboration, those groups also attacked the KMT.

At the same period accounting for 45.8% of all (PRC) state affiliated media news, these media top narrative promoted the “Choice Between Peace and War” concept. Within this, 30% of the themes involved misleading narratives distorted from articles published by American scholar Bonnie Glaser. The related news articles are quickly effectively distributed by Facebook troll groups.

An analysis of collaborated behavior, the researchers demonstrated that from November 1st to December 10th, the ranking highest troll activities were that Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook fan group (34.3%), followed by Lai Ching-te (8.5%), Ko Wen-je (2,77%), Terry Gou (2.76%), Hou You-yi (2.50%). Further, two Facebook troll account groups #61009 and #61019 contributed to over 50% of total troll activities under all on fan pages. These two troll groups also actively distributed “South China Sea Working Conference” misinformation attacking the Taiwan military expenses and discrediting United States’ support in July.

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