TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Ambassador-at-large Audrey Tang (唐鳳) shared Taiwan’s experience in strengthening social resilience on Monday at the Social Good Summit in the Philippines.

Tang said Taiwan has been the world’s top target of information manipulation for more than a decade, facing over 2 million malicious foreign cyberattacks per day. Despite this, Taiwan has refrained from thought control or media censorship, per CNA.

Instead, it has deepened freedom of expression and civic participation, strengthening society-wide defensive resilience, she said.

Tang warned that authoritarian regimes do not simply back one side and attack the other, but instead amplify the most extreme voices on both sides to provoke internal conflict and social division. She said nationwide media literacy and the ability to identify disinformation are therefore crucial.

She said Taiwan’s early investment in media literacy has helped the public resist information manipulation, making disinformation counterproductive in recent elections.

Tang discussed how Taiwan uses artificial intelligence to promote civic participation and build social consensus, as well as how the “Taiwan model” can address social media polarization.

She cited Taiwan’s Uber regulation controversy a decade ago as an example, explaining how Taiwan enabled Uber and taxi drivers to find common ground through the Polis platform, resulting in a diversified taxi service model. In recent years, Taiwan also used alignment assemblies to bring statistically representative citizens together to help advance reforms to the Electronic Signature Act and the passage of anti-fraud legislation, Tang said.

Tang said a series of anti-fraud measures has reduced online scam advertisements by more than 90%, per CNA.