Fighting Against Disinformation from Foreign Forces? Or Suppressing Criticism from Domestic Opposition Parties?

Abstract Every country is concerned about disinformation on the internet, especially its impact domestic elections and politics. Among them, there are concerns that mainland China will meddle in Taiwan’s with disinformation. In December 2018, government launched a policy to combat disinformation, including proposing legal amendments. However, laws Taiwanese use investigate prosecute individuals not newly revised laws, but an existing Social Order Maintenance Act. addition, at end of 2019, ‘Anti-Infiltration Act’ was suddenly proposed passed. Both (Taiwan’s main tools fight against fake news) raise questions as potential violations freedom speech, discussion which remains heavily influenced by jurisprudence United States (US). judiciary legislature have misunderstood law US or made amendments, resulting divergent developmental trajectories.