Disinformation Threat Watch | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

We chose to study disinformation in East Asia in order to better understand the global landscape of disinformation and gather lessons learned for U.S. policymakers. While the 2016 presidential election highlighted the impact of disinformation on American politics, disinformation is a global challenge and has a long legacy in Taiwanese and South Korean politics. Most academic research, however, focuses primarily on American or European experiences with disinformation in the past decade. By expanding our regional focus to Asia, we aimed to identify how disinformation has been used as a political tool and how other democratic countries have responded to this threat.