The Hualien mayoral by-election day is approaching, and Tsai Ing-wen has the pressure of a defeat she cannot afford. Especially now that President Tsai Ing-wen and Premier Lin Chuan’s polls continue to be low, not only are accidents occurring frequently in the Republic of China Armed Forces, but even the Hualien election has key symbolic significance, requiring the DPP to mobilize and go all out. Otherwise, it might worsen the situation for the already lame-duck Tsai Ing-wen and Lin Chuan.
However, last night SETN News had a fake news article titled “Too Much! Husband Raped, Female Rep Beaten and Threatened by Victim: Dare to Report and I’ll Sue You” that went viral on social media, and many self-proclaimed civil society organizations were also frantically forwarding it.
SETN News Dredging Up Old News from Over Ten Years Ago??
The incident “Too Much! Husband Raped, Female Rep Beaten and Threatened by Victim: Dare to Report and I’ll Sue You” is actually a social incident that occurred in 2005. You read that right, this incident happened over ten years ago, but it was stirred up by SETN News into new news last night, which is almost like a fake news item out of sync with time.
The reason this happened is probably related to Wei Ru-xun’s brother “Wei Jia-xian” who is preparing to challenge for the Hualien mayoral seat.
Otherwise, Wei Ru-xun has long ceased to be a representative of public opinion. The dredging up of old news reminds me of the confiscation and extermination of nine generations of kindred in the ancient imperial system.
Restoring the truth of those years, Wei Ru-xun’s husband Lin Ming-xiong was involved in raping a 17-year-old minor girl, but was caught in bed by Wei Ru-xun.
Fairly speaking, Wei Ru-xun, who was heavily pregnant and about to give birth at the time, if you were Wei Ru-xun and heard that your husband was in a hotel with a woman, without knowing that the woman might also be a victim, would you rush to the hotel to catch them?! If it were me, I definitely would.
Wei Ru-xun divorced Lin Ming-xiong immediately after the incident, and even if she did hit the wrong person in the hotel, the judge had already made a ruling for justice long ago.
Ten years have passed, and all parties have finally tried their best to return to peace. Why did SETN News stir up old news last night, making those ‘two’ victims, Wei Ru-xun and that 17-year-old victim girl, recall the painful memories of being betrayed and raped back then?!
SETN News and Civil Society Groups (Self-proclaimed) are Busy
The editor just randomly used the full title as keywords on Google and found that many fan pages claiming to be civil society groups are helping to promote this story of SETN News. It has even been heavily indexed by Google into its database, forming a new discussion structure.
Caption: Google Search for “Too Much! Husband Raped, Female Rep Beaten and Threatened by Victim: Dare to Report and I’ll Sue You”
Wake up and win back Taiwan!? The Communist Party relied on peasants with insufficient knowledge to win the country back then.
SETN News probably felt that one news item was not enough, and surprisingly two articles with identical titles were simultaneously indexed by Google, which is the ultimate goal we, as a small website, dream of (drooling).
However, while writing this, I just found that, oh, the screens of the two news items have both turned into an innocent bear with teary eyes.
Caption: SETN News, Page not found error 404.
Fortunately, Google still has the useful network mechanism of “cached pages”. Opening the news that has been stealthily removed, it turns out that SETN News made the story at 8:42 PM last night, and I only saw it after waking up this morning.
It can almost be said that this news was launched at the most active time of the internet (8 PM to 11 PM is the peak time for the public to read news online), and it had enough time to go viral among netizens who don’t sleep, and then it was removed in the morning as if nothing happened, without even an apology or a correction. It is simply comparable to a party newspaper of the authoritarian era.
Caption: Too much! Husband raped, female rep beaten and threatened by victim: Dare to report and I’ll sue you. Reported by SETN News.
The editor can only say that the reporter who made this story is too professional in the internet field. If he opens SEO and fan marketing courses, the editor must go and sign up.
SETN News original text: Too Much! Husband Raped, Female Rep Beaten and Threatened by Victim: Dare to Report and I’ll Sue You (Original URL has expired).