Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/27/2020
By: Sabine Cheng and Matthew Mazzetta

Taipei, June 27 (CNA) The non-profit Taiwan FactCheck Center received a global fact-checking award Friday for debunking a video that falsely claimed to show vote rigging taking place during Taiwan's national elections in January.

The fact-check won the "Best correction achieved" award in the annual Global Fact Awards program, which is hosted by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies' International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).

In the award citation, the IFCN noted that some in Taiwan feared China would try to interfere in the elections, and credited Taiwan FactCheck Center for its quick work to debunk the vote rigging claim on election night.

Fact-checkers reviewed the video, which "supposedly showed a man messing with a tallying system, and discovered he was simply tallying the votes being read out by a woman off screen," the citation said.    [FULL  STORY]