Three Charged With Using 'Internet Army' To Smear Political Candidate
Three men have been indicted accused of using bots to run fake social media accounts to smear a legislative candidate in January's elections. It's the first such case to be brought in Taiwan.
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00:00 Three men have been indicted in what prosecutors say is Taiwan's first case against a so-called
00:05 internet army of bots being used for political purposes.
00:09 The men are accused of operating nearly 140 fake Facebook accounts to spread misinformation
00:14 about a legislative candidate during January's national election.
00:18 Prosecutors say that the bot-run accounts have generated memes and spread rumors about
00:22 Chou Ruohua from the opposition Kuomintang, including about her supposed connections to
00:26 to the criminal underworld.
00:27 Cho nearly won her race despite the attacks.