1. The issue of disinformation has become a serious threat to governments and people all over the world. Please answer the following questions :
- What is the difference between disinformation and misinformation? (10%)
- Please use an example to explicate how disinformation may affect people in Taiwan. (10%)
- Pleases discuss ways to mitigate the spread of disinformation from the perspectives of (a) the government, (b) digital platforms, such as Facebook or Line, and (c) individual citizens.
Please show your knowledge about what has been done and what needs to be done. Feel free to cite examples both from Taiwan and from other countries. Be sure to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of the measures you talk about in your answer. (45%)
2. The advance of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning have transformed some aspects of our lives. For example, media companies, like Bloomberg and the Washington Post, have started to use A.I. robots to write news reports. Could you discuss:
- the upsides and downsides of A.I. news writing or reports produced by A.I. robots? (15%)
- how machine learning robots may influence the future work of journalists and how they may react to it?