2024/02/10 05:30
China’s internet celebrities are waging a cognitive war, with Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Boyang calling on platforms to reveal their financial flows. (Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)
To identify whether foreign forces are funding or not, and to plan to amend the “Anti-infiltration Law”
[Reporter Chen Zhengyu/Report from Taipei]The CCP intensifies its awareness war against Taiwan through donate (sponsored) Internet celebrities. Especially during the general election, many high-traffic and high-sponsored channels have concentrated political stances, raising questions. In this regard, DPP legislators suggested that in addition to tax reform, platforms must also be required to disclose financial flows to identify whether foreign forces are funding them, and that amendments to the “Anti-infiltration Law” should also be studied in the future.
The CCP spends a lot of money to buy Internet celebrities and use its navy to increase traffic
Some Internet celebrities or opinion leaders (KOL) who comment on political issues earn a large amount of clicks and cash flows during the election. Their monthly income from live broadcasts can even reach millions of New Taiwan dollars. DPP Legislator Wang Dingyu pointed out in an interview that the CCP spends a lot of money to buy some Internet celebrities and YouTubers, or directly cultivates some specific people to create publicity, and boosts these channels with water armies and zombie accounts, using the method of “drilling internal control” to fund The flow of money went undetected.
Live broadcasters have concerns if 80% of their money flow comes from overseas
As for how to respond, Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Boyang said that if the money flow comes from abroad, there will be the problem of the intervention of foreign forces. Therefore, it is necessary to first confirm how many sources of money flow there are. For example, when doing live broadcasts in Taiwan, 80% of the money flows. If the flow comes from overseas, it may be abnormal. This can only be known by cooperating with the platform. There are two situations. One is placing advertisements on the platform, but most of them are advertising agencies from Taiwan; the other is live-streaming-related TikTok. The Ministry of Finance has also discussed the issue of taxing Internet celebrities.
Shen Boyang said that on the one hand, it must be dealt with from the perspective of the tax system, and on the other hand, the platform must provide information on internal sources. It does not necessarily have to reveal which country it is, but it must explain whether the financial flow comes from domestic or overseas, through IP To determine which geolocation (geographical location information) comes from, this can transparently control financial flows and provide direct evidence for overseas financial flows.
In response to the calls for the amendment of the “Reverse Osmosis Law”, Shen Boyang said that if an Internet celebrity is revealed to have 80% of his financial flow coming from overseas, and the funder wants to continue to support it, he will have to take the agent route and provide it through Taiwanese. Money, this may fall into the category of “reverse osmosis law”. In order to cope with the influence of foreign forces on domestic Internet celebrities, we must go through each level one by one. In the future, we will further study and amend some provisions of the “Anti-infiltration Law”.
In addition, Wang Dingyu mentioned that the French mainstream media revealed that China launched a “shadow puppet operation” and established fake audio and video channels to confuse the truth with wrong information and create an anti-European and American trend. The above situation also occurred in Taiwan, through Chinese, The purpose of synthetic videos and fallacious content generated by AI is to cause divisions in Taiwanese society, as well as dissatisfaction and disappointment with democratic politics, in order to create a “pro-China, anti-American” faction, causing certain harm to a free and democratic society. All sectors of government, regardless of distinction, Parties should deal with misinformation generated through AI.
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