Taiwan's well-known online forum deletes more than 1,000 abnormal accounts. Insiders: most of them are Tsai Ing-wen's cyber army

According to Taiwan media reports, the well-known online social forum on the island, "Taiwan Big Kick Industrial Workshop" (PTT), has successively cleared abnormal accounts since October this year. According to statistics, from October 7 to November 2, PTT has cleared as many as 1,154 accounts. Some people familiar with the matter said that most of the Internet military accounts are in the PTT, and they have published articles supporting Tsai Ing-wen or criticizing Han Guoyu. They are suspected to be Tsai Ing-wen’s Internet military.

According to reports, as early as March this year, a KMT-member "legislator" revealed that Taiwan’s "Executive Yuan Council of Agriculture" compiled a budget of NT$14.5 million to fund the cyber army and use major online discussion platforms to help the DPP. Propaganda, lead topics and drive the direction of public opinion. PTT cleared a large number of 784 accounts in July this year, on the grounds that these accounts were all held and used by the same person or group.

​​A number of PTT users posted recently, saying that these deleted accounts were all cyber soldiers, and they all used the same sentence pattern. They basically cheered Tsai Ing-wen, criticized Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe, and criticized the Kuomintang nominee Hanko Yu, etc. .

In addition, some people familiar with the matter believe that most of the deleted accounts are held by public relations companies that cooperate with the DPP. Some netizens posted an analysis, saying that relevant public relations companies use KPIs to calculate their performance when facing the backers. Therefore, when presenting, they rely on the keywords of the title to increase network exposure.

(Edit: Anle)