In recent days, Chinese state media used satellite imagery on social media platforms, such as Facebook and YouTube, to maliciously expose the locations of the workplaces and residences of Taiwanese legislators, and disseminated threatening remarks. The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) not only strongly condemns such acts of digital coercion, but also immediately requested platform operators to handle the matter promptly in accordance with community guidelines. Today (4th), MODA received reports from Meta and Google stating that the relevant infringing images, posts, and videos had been removed.

MODA stressed that hostile foreign forces utilizing social media to publicly threaten members of parliament in a democratic nation have crossed a red line; this is behavior that no democratic country can tolerate. It also called on all platforms to fulfill their social responsibilities and jointly defend digital human rights and democratic values.