How a Chinese Operative Secretly Infiltrated a Newsroom

Taiwanese authorities are investigating reports that a Chinese state-backed journalist has been wielding her influence behind the scenes at a Taiwanese broadcaster to push Chinese propaganda surreptitiously to Taiwanese audiences.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office had approached several Taiwanese broadcasters with proposals to launch political talk shows in Taiwan—and to sweeten the deal, they offered to give the show preferential commercial treatment in the Chinese market, according to Liberty Times, a sister paper of the Taipei Times.

One Taiwanese broadcaster reportedly accepted the proposal, and so began the influence operation. Zhao Bo, a reporter for Xinhua, a Chinese state news agency, arrived at the broadcaster and directly edited content for the show, including scripts, according to the report. The production team wasn’t told her identity or her purpose of her work, according to Taipei Times.

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