TAIPEI, Taiwan—The nonprofit Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has rebuked a Taiwanese pro-Beijing media outlet for launching a libel lawsuit against UK-based business news outlet Financial Times.
On July 19, Taiwanese media reported that Want Want China Times Media Group, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Want Want Holdings, filed a libel case against Financial Times and its China correspondent Kathrin Hille at Taiwan’s district prosecutor’s office in Taipei. The media group alleged that an article by Hille about the Chinese regime’s meddling in the Taiwanese media landscape was “fake news.”
