A few days ago the Internet circulated a fake official document of the Presidential Office of Taiwan, rumors that Taiwan to receive the Fukushima nuclear wastewater. The Taiwan Presidential Office denied it on the 16th and said it had called the police to deal with it. The information warfare researcher found that the same Twitter account that faked it also faked information images from Radio Free Asia and Radio France Internationale. He said this is a standard Chinese Communist Party cognitive warfare tactic against Taiwan, posing as a credible media outlet in an attempt to conduct influence warfare.
Taiwan’s presidential office, the Democratic Progressive Party, and President Tsai Ing-wen, on the 16th, made a series of solemn statements on Facebook that the forged official documents circulating on the Internet were typical of cognitive warfare. Tsai Ing-wen said on Facebook that after she received a visiting delegation from the United States last night, a fake official document circulated by a simplified Chinese account appeared on Twitter late at night. The fake Presidential Office document falsely claimed that “the government introduced Japanese sewage,” with obvious flaws such as the use of simplified characters and unfamiliarity with Taiwan’s government system and official language.
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Kolas Yotaka, a spokesman for Taiwan’s presidential office, said in a 16-day interview with Radio Free Asia, “This is a fake official document, and we urge the public not to believe it or pass it on. Not to mention the presence of simplified characters in the text, so this could not be an official document issued by our government.”
Presidential Office points out five obvious errors
The spokesman for the presidential office pointed out on Facebook that the five mistakes in the fake document are ridiculous, including the fact that the fake picture was issued on April 16 this year, but it was circulated on the Internet and tweeted on April 15. In addition, if the presidential office wants to send a letter to the Ministry of National Defense, it will directly write “Ministry of National Defense”, not “Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China”, as for the “declassified after publication” ” After the word “declassified” is the use of simplified Chinese characters, and the use of terms such as “Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Republic of China”, with “military registration number” attached, are not the usual language and official writing style in Taiwan. In addition, there is no “cabinet meeting” in the presidential office in Taiwan.
The company’s main goal is to provide a platform for the development of a new product, which will be available in the market. For example, the threat of intimidation by military aircraft, warships, trying to exert psychological pressure, or the production and dissemination of false information, trying to undermine the internal unity of society, are common modes of cognitive warfare. Tsai Ing-wen said she mentioned to the U.S. delegation that Taiwan has considerable experience in responding to false messages and looks forward to continued cooperation between Taiwan and the U.S. in combating false messages.
The Democratic Progressive Party spokesman Liu Kangyan pointed out that the picture of the fake official document appeared exactly during the visit of President Joe Biden’s special envoy to Taiwan, and the degree of writing the official document was poor. The DPP is trying to use the “gray zone conflict” to consume democratic resources.
RFA and RFI were faked at the same time
At the same time, it also appeared that the American Radio Free Asia and Radio France Internationale were falsified and claimed to have quoted the message of the fake official document. In this regard, Gu Spice said that there are many ways in which various departments of the Taiwan government have been attacked.
For example, “Forgery, or half-truths, passing on some wrong information, not only through an official document or the form of the media are possible, can only constantly appeal to the media to be cautious and careful.”
The assistant professor of the Institute of Criminology at Taipei University, Shen Boyang, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that he found out on the night of the 15th that Sun xx had sent out a fake official document, and the same account also sent out messages from Radio Free Asia and RFI (French Broadcasting) reporting the fake official document, and he passed it on to friends he knew at the time to remind people from relevant political parties to pay attention to it.
Shen Boyang pointed out that he observed a series of fake accounts and contents of Sun XX, and saw that his Twitter account was “@us_ned_chinese” deliberately using “us_ned”, which is also an enemy of the Chinese Communist Party: ” His goal is not to make it more real, but to create confusion, so that once the real official document comes out, the public will wonder if the real one is fake, and create such an effect.
Radio Free Asia has become a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party
Shen Boyang said, Sun XX series of accounts against Radio Free Asia fake for more than a year, many fake, reverse series of “Radio Free XX”.
Shen Boyang said: “We must pick Radio Free Asia and treat Radio Free Asia as an enemy, because Radio Free Asia often reports news unfavorable to China, they think it is the enemy, they used to deliberately create fake Free Asia, so that people think that Free Asia reports a lot of biased news, most of them use fake screenshots of Radio Free Asia and then send them to other platforms, and then laugh at the other side. Radio Free Asia, there are a series of, mainly considered to be the enemy.”
Shen Boyang also said that most of Sunxx’s accounts in simplified Chinese are “anti-series,” that is, people who pretend to be on the other side of the fence, such as posting something tragic about Xinjiang to make netizens who support Xinjiang think they are on the same side as him, and then he throws in some fake messages that netizens may believe because they think the position seems to be the same.
Shen Boyang said, similar to this kind of adulterated messages related to Taiwan, and adulterated video, at least a dozen a day, the really high level of fake messages people can hardly identify, because it will be commissioned to Taiwan people to produce, Taiwan people do not feel the problem, that kind of threat is big.
Fake official documents and foreign news reports in an attempt to enhance influence
The Ministry of National Defense think tank, the National Defense Security Research Institute of the Chinese Communist Party, Shu Hsiao-huang, an associate researcher interviewed by Radio Free Asia, analyzed that the matter was repaired to the top of the Taiwan government, more like a government agency led by Internet hackers and fake official documents together at the same time, only to send a fake official document not much people spread, if the media have reported, there will be people believe him.
Shu Hsiao-Huang said, “to find a foreign newspaper seems to have more credibility, was picked to the victims of today’s pick Free Asia, tomorrow may be the Central News Agency, the purpose may be to use the media itself credibility, to convince him of the effect of fake news to create the dissemination effect. Because these fake messages spread quickly, they quickly circulate on the Internet or social groups, and even three or five years later they are still on the Internet, because it is difficult to delete them one by one, and the clarification messages are not forwarded so quickly, and they do not even reach the platform where the masses who see the fake messages can see them. And most of those who broadcast falsehoods use human accounts, so it’s hard to file a lawsuit.”
Shu Xiaohuang said that the Chinese Communist Party uses the “three wars” of public opinion warfare, legal warfare and psychological warfare to carry out “unified warfare”, especially using information that can be easily copied and reposted to carry out influence warfare and change the target people’s thinking about certain matters and then change their behavior.
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