Taiwan’s president is battling a deluge of election-linked homophobic fake news
Taiwan’s president is battling a deluge of election-linked homophobic fake news
- January 6, 2020
- Lev Nachman, poli sci, Quartz, Jan. 6, 2020
Though most of the homophobic attacks against Tsai come from the opposition Kuomintang party, Lev Nachman, a doctoral candidate who studies Taiwanese politics at the University of California, Irvine, said that her own DPP may also be the source. He said, many members of Tsai’s own party are against same-sex marriage. “The biggest misconception is that the Kuomintang is the conservative party and the DPP is progressive,” he added.
For the full story, please visit https://qz.com/1780015/taiwan-election-tsai-ing-wen-faces-homophobic-fake-news/.
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