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Beijing is mass-posting videos featuring a false “secret history” of 
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on hundreds of social media accounts in a disinformation push ahead of Saturday’s presidential election.
The Secret History of Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文秘史) is a 300-page document containing rumors and negative content first published last month on the online open repository Zenodo.
The material is being turned into hastily produced videos with AI-generated voiceovers and fake hosts, and being posted on YouTube, Instagram, X and other platforms.
The content’s creation and spread bore the characteristic traits of an informational operation by 
Ministry of State Security.
The videos, which were being shared about 100 times per minute, were promptly replaced if deleted by platforms or the accounts were banned and had been edited using Capcut, software developed by ByteDance (字節跳動), the parent of TikTok and Douyin.
The videos used virtual hosts, including characters that resembled Chinese-speaking newscasters, foreigners, and in at least one instance, Santa Claus.
The campaign used more social media platforms than usual, including a manga subforum of the online bulletin board Professional Technology Temple, Mirror Literature and a Facebook group for real-estate listings.
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President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on hundreds of social media accounts in a disinformation push ahead of Saturday’s presidential election.
The Secret History of Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文秘史) is a 300-page document containing rumors and negative content first published last month on the online open repository Zenodo.
The material is being turned into hastily produced videos with AI-generated voiceovers and fake hosts, and being posted on YouTube, Instagram, X and other platforms.
The content’s creation and spread bore the characteristic traits of an informational operation by Ministry of State Security.
The videos, which were being shared about 100 times per minute, were promptly replaced if deleted by platforms or the accounts were banned and had been edited using Capcut, software developed by ByteDance (字節跳動), the parent of TikTok and Douyin.
The videos used virtual hosts, including characters that resembled Chinese-speaking newscasters, foreigners, and in at least one instance, Santa Claus.
The campaign used more social media platforms than usual, including a manga subforum of the online bulletin board Professional Technology Temple, Mirror Literature and a Facebook group for real-estate listings.
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