Stanford: The Fimi Challenge: Countering Foreign Information Manipulation And Interference In Taiwan And The United States & .... free Taiwan World University and School building on MIT OCW in Traditional Chinese -
Asked Gemini -
"How best to develop further The Fimi Challenge in order to Counter Foreign Information Manipulation And Interference In Taiwan And The United States and per the Stanford Hoover Institutes' 3/9/26 roundtable yesterday -https://www.hoover.org/
And got this INCREDIBLE response - https://gemini.google.com/
And great to talk with you, Jerry, for about 10 minutes in the intermission; and thanks for giving me your card; sorry I didn't have a card on me to give you in return, but glad you were able to see the WorldUniversityAndSchool.org sticker on my MacBook Air laptop. And yes, it would be great if we could arrange for you to be a speaker at a World University and School online event per your request - and possibly even in opening free Taiwan World University and School (from https://wiki.
https://www.hoover.org/events/
To develop the FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) Challenge per the discussions at the Stanford Hoover Institution’s roundtable on March 9, 2026, the focus should shift toward a "whole-of-society" resilience model that bridges the gap between grassroots efforts and high-level policy.
Drawing from the expert analysis provided by the Hoover Institution’s Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region, here is how the challenge can be further developed to counter threats in Taiwan and the U.S.:
1. Scaling the "Taiwan POWER" Model
The roundtable highlighted Taiwan's POWER framework (Public-private partnership, Open data, Whole-of-society, Education, and Resilience). Development should focus on:
Decentralized Fact-Checking: Moving beyond centralized government debunking to empower civil society organizations (like the Taiwan Factcheck Center) with AI-assisted tools to detect "Spamouflage"—propaganda hidden within benign content.
Rapid Response Frameworks: Implementing the four-step "Detect, Debunk, Contain, and Discipline" model more aggressively to shorten the life cycle of viral disinformation.
2. Strengthening US-Taiwan Intelligence Sharing
A key takeaway was that PRC operations against Taiwan often use third-country servers or mirror campaigns targeting the U.S. To develop the challenge:
Cross-Theater Attribution: Establishing a formal "FIMI Intelligence Exchange" where private social media companies, U.S. agencies, and Taiwanese civil society share real-time data on the technical "fingerprints" of state-sponsored actors.
Joint Wargaming: Conducting regular simulations that involve both U.S. and Taiwanese officials to navigate the "civil liberties vs. security" tension, specifically regarding platform bans (like the 2025 Rednote/Xiaohongshu ban in Taiwan).
3. Addressing "Privatized FIMI" (P-FIMI)
As the PRC increasingly hires commercial firms to run covert operations, the FIMI Challenge must evolve to:
Follow the Money: Enhance financial tracking of commercial entities that provide infrastructure (bot farms, deepfake generators) for foreign interference.
Influencer Accountability: Develop transparency standards for "micro-influencers" who may be paid by foreign state actors to sow domestic polarization.
4. Policy and Legal Harmonization
To prevent "regulatory arbitrage" where foreign actors exploit different legal standards:
Divestment and Data Security: Using the U.S. TikTok divestment model as a potential blueprint for other critical information infrastructure, while ensuring these measures do not trigger the political backlash seen during previous administrations.
Civic Education as Defense: Integrating FIMI resilience into K-12 and university curricula, treating media literacy as a component of national security rather than just a social skill.
Resilient Realists: How Taiwan Navigates Its Future
This video provides critical context from the Hoover Institution regarding Taiwan’s strategic resilience and its role as a front-line state in the global information war.
Dear #JerryYu, #WeiPingLi, #YouHouLai, & Stanford's #GrahamWebster & #ProfLarryDiamond:
Thanks for your GREAT #StanfordHooverFIMI round table M 3/9/26 -
https://www.hoover.org/events/
Sending from here too and please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool (updated March 2, 2024) - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 mentioning language diversity with MIT OCW, a #RealisticVirtualEarth, studying enjoyment in learning rigorously, a #VirtualHarbin hot springs as physical-digital STEM field sites (a focus of all 5 of my books), and even studying bliss at virtual Harbin, and much more. How might we create a #RealisticVirtualTaiwan and think in Google Street View Google Maps with #TensorflowAI & Gemini AI, and at the #GCellView and #GMoleculeView levels, and with little Pegman becoming #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords for all 23 million Taiwans, and as potential aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerge, FDA approved (by 2025, for the first such gene therapies)? For your information further, free World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and on Wikidata (Wikimedia's structured knowledge database) in ~342 languages, is in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program. Friendly greetings, Yogic-ally, best regards Scott MacLeod
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
Languages at WUaS (all 7159 are planned)
https://x.com/WUaSPress/
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/
https://x.com/HarbinBook/
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
Excited that #GeminiAI & @GoogleResearch LLMs are reading scientific literature on #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneTherapies & #vaccinesWUaS in many langs & pot. synthesizing them in #RealisticVirtualEarth w #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords - https://t.co/e3eIB1oopu ~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 9, 2026
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/
jerryu@doublethinklab.org,
https://dfrlab.org/staff/
https://www.linkedin.com/
Wei-Ping Li
weiping@factlink.tw,
https://www.factlink.tw/p/the-
https://merrill.umd.edu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
You-Hao Lai
youhao@dset.tw,
https://dset.tw/en/teams/you-
https://globaltaiwan.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Graham Webster
gweb@stanford.edu
https://profiles.stanford.edu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jerry Yu is a senior analyst at Doublethink Lab, where he specializes in conducting digital investigations and analyzing influence operations. In 2022 and 2024, Jerry has extensive experience in observing influence operations during both local and national elections, including training part-time analysts, managing data collection processes, and publishing reports based on the findings.
Drawing from his elections observation experience, he has collaborated on cross-national projects by sharing the experience and knowledge with journalists, NGOs, and researchers across South, Southeast, East Asia, and the Pacific region. The collaborations are to expose the techniques of influence operations used by threat actors and share the intelligence together. During the Ukrainian-Russian war, he tracked the propaganda spread by the PRC and published a report, ‘Analysis: How Ukraine has been Nazified in the Chinese information space?’
Before joining the Doublethink Lab, he was a research assistant at the Center for Survey Research Center at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he combined traditional social scientific methods with computational approaches to analyze the process, dynamics, and effects of human communication behaviors through the integration of user log and self-reported data from survey or experiment.
Jerry graduated from the Graduate School of Criminology at the National Taipei University, and is also trained in crime spatial analysis with the Temple University in the United States for a semester. He is also a co-producer and co-host of the “Jianghu 543” podcast, which provides insights into the lives of individuals in Taiwan’s criminal justice system.
You-Hao Lai is a practicing lawyer currently pursuing his doctorate at The George Washington University Law School. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Democratic Governance Program at DSET. His research explores legal and policy responses to the challenges posed by digital authoritarianism to cybersecurity and the free flow of information. He is actively engaged in various civil movements related to technology regulation and human rights protection. Before joining DSET, he worked at the Cogito Law Office, a prominent firm specializing in public interest litigation in Taiwan. Additionally, he served as a legal and policy advisor to the President of the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial organ. He holds LL.M. degrees from the National Taiwan University College of Law and Harvard Law School.
Wei-Ping Li earned her Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She serves as an adjunct lecturer at Merrill College and works as a researcher with UMD's Maryland Democracy Initiative. Li is also the research director at FactLink, a Taiwan-based organization dedicated to OSINT (open-source intelligence) investigations and enhancing digital literacy among Chinese-speaking communities.
Li's research focuses on the transnational dissemination of false information, conspiracy theories, propaganda and content moderation policy. From 2024-25, she held the position of postdoctoral researcher at UMD, collaborating with Dr. Sarah Oates and Dr. Naeemul Hassan on the "Disarming Disinformation" program, which is coordinated by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Li was also a research fellow at the Taiwan Factcheck Center (TFC) from 2023-25.
Before pursuing an academic career in journalism, she provided consulting services on digital human rights in Asia. She also previously worked as a journalist covering financial and legal topics in Taiwan for several years.
Li is a licensed lawyer in New York state. She earned her LL.M. (Master of Laws) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Soochow University (Taiwan), as well as a Master of Arts degree in journalism from National ChengChi University (Taiwan).
Graham Webster is a research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance and editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He researches, writes, and teaches on technology policy in China and US-China relations.
Before bringing DigiChina to Stanford in 2019, he was its cofounder and coordinating editor at New America, where he was a China digital economy fellow. From 2012 to 2017, Webster worked for Yale Law School as a senior fellow and lecturer responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track II dialogues between the United States and China and co-taught seminars on contemporary China and Chinese law and policy. While there, he was an affiliated fellow with the Yale Information Society Project, a visiting scholar at China Foreign Affairs University, and a Transatlantic Digital Debates fellow with New America and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. He was previously an adjunct instructor teaching East Asian politics at New York University and a Beijing-based journalist writing on the Internet in China for CNET News.
Webster holds a bachelor's in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University and a master's in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He took doctoral coursework in political science at the University of Washington and language training at Tsinghua University, Peking University, Stanford University, and Kanda University of International Studies.
- Healthcare Initiative: In March 2026, Google announced a partnership with Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA). The goal was to deploy a Gemini-powered, AI-on-DM (Diabetes Mellitus) model. This system is integrated into the "My Health Bank" app. It provides personalized, secure insights to 10 million users. The system improved diabetes risk assessment times from 20 minutes to 25 seconds per case.
- "Gemini Ignite" Program: This initiative began in 2025. It aims to develop AI literacy, enhance skills, and promote innovation. Over 100,000 students, developers, and professionals are involved.
- Education Focus: Google offers free one-year subscriptions of the "Google AI Pro" plan (including Gemini 2.5 Pro) to Taiwanese college students. Also, more than 3,000 teachers are training in "Gemini Academy". They are learning how to use tools like NotebookLM and Gemini in classrooms.
- Infrastructure & Investment: A new hardware engineering hub will open in Taipei. It will be Google's largest AI hardware center outside of the United States.
- Local Application: The platform supports Traditional Chinese. It offers localized, secure, and compliant AI solutions for companies and individual users.
- March 2026: The AI-on-DM model launched, providing quick diabetes risk assessments.
- February 2026: Gemini Live was demonstrated. It provided real-time translation and object recognition in places like Jiufen.
- December 2025/Early 2026: Gemini-powered features were added to Google Translate. These features help users better understand idioms and slang in Taiwanese Mandarin.
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Asked Gemini -
"How best to develop further The Fimi Challenge in order to Counter Foreign Information Manipulation And Interference In Taiwan And The United States and per the Stanford Hoover Institutes' 3/9/26 roundtable yesterday -https://www.hoover.org/
And see - https://gemini.google.com/
And great to talk with you, Jerry, for about 10 minutes in the intermission; and thanks for giving me your card; sorry I didn't have a card on me to give you in return, but glad you were able to see the WorldUniversityAndSchool.org sticker on my MacBook Air laptop. And yes, it would be great if we could arrange for you to be a speaker at a World University and School online event per your request - and possibly even in opening free Taiwan World University and School (from https://wiki.
https://www.hoover.org/events/
To develop the FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) Challenge per the discussions at the Stanford Hoover Institution’s roundtable on March 9, 2026, the focus should shift toward a "whole-of-society" resilience model that bridges the gap between grassroots efforts and high-level policy.
Drawing from the expert analysis provided by the Hoover Institution’s Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region, here is how the challenge can be further developed to counter threats in Taiwan and the U.S.:
1. Scaling the "Taiwan POWER" Model
The roundtable highlighted Taiwan's POWER framework (Public-private partnership, Open data, Whole-of-society, Education, and Resilience). Development should focus on:
Decentralized Fact-Checking: Moving beyond centralized government debunking to empower civil society organizations (like the Taiwan Factcheck Center) with AI-assisted tools to detect "Spamouflage"—propaganda hidden within benign content.
Rapid Response Frameworks: Implementing the four-step "Detect, Debunk, Contain, and Discipline" model more aggressively to shorten the life cycle of viral disinformation.
2. Strengthening US-Taiwan Intelligence Sharing
A key takeaway was that PRC operations against Taiwan often use third-country servers or mirror campaigns targeting the U.S. To develop the challenge:
Cross-Theater Attribution: Establishing a formal "FIMI Intelligence Exchange" where private social media companies, U.S. agencies, and Taiwanese civil society share real-time data on the technical "fingerprints" of state-sponsored actors.
Joint Wargaming: Conducting regular simulations that involve both U.S. and Taiwanese officials to navigate the "civil liberties vs. security" tension, specifically regarding platform bans (like the 2025 Rednote/Xiaohongshu ban in Taiwan).
3. Addressing "Privatized FIMI" (P-FIMI)
As the PRC increasingly hires commercial firms to run covert operations, the FIMI Challenge must evolve to:
Follow the Money: Enhance financial tracking of commercial entities that provide infrastructure (bot farms, deepfake generators) for foreign interference.
Influencer Accountability: Develop transparency standards for "micro-influencers" who may be paid by foreign state actors to sow domestic polarization.
4. Policy and Legal Harmonization
To prevent "regulatory arbitrage" where foreign actors exploit different legal standards:
Divestment and Data Security: Using the U.S. TikTok divestment model as a potential blueprint for other critical information infrastructure, while ensuring these measures do not trigger the political backlash seen during previous administrations.
Civic Education as Defense: Integrating FIMI resilience into K-12 and university curricula, treating media literacy as a component of national security rather than just a social skill.
Resilient Realists: How Taiwan Navigates Its Future
This video provides critical context from the Hoover Institution regarding Taiwan’s strategic resilience and its role as a front-line state in the global information war.
Dear #JerryYu, #WeiPingLi, #YouHouLai, & Stanford's #GrahamWebster & #ProfLarryDiamond:
Thanks for your GREAT #StanfordHooverFIMI round table M 3/9/26 -
https://www.hoover.org/events/
Sending from here too and please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool (updated March 2, 2024) - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 mentioning language diversity with MIT OCW, a #RealisticVirtualEarth, studying enjoyment in learning rigorously, a #VirtualHarbin hot springs as physical-digital STEM field sites (a focus of all 5 of my books), and even studying bliss at virtual Harbin, and much more. How might we create a #RealisticVirtualTaiwan and think in Google Street View Google Maps with #TensorflowAI & Gemini AI, and at the #GCellView and #GMoleculeView levels, and with little Pegman becoming #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords for all 23 million Taiwans, and as potential aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerge, FDA approved (by 2025, for the first such gene therapies)? For your information further, free World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and on Wikidata (Wikimedia's structured knowledge database) in ~342 languages, is in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program. Friendly greetings, Yogic-ally, best regards Scott MacLeod
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
Languages at WUaS (all 7159 are planned)
https://x.com/WUaSPress/
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/
https://x.com/HarbinBook/
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
Excited that #GeminiAI & @GoogleResearch LLMs are reading scientific literature on #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneTherapies & #vaccinesWUaS in many langs & pot. synthesizing them in #RealisticVirtualEarth w #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords - https://t.co/e3eIB1oopu ~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 9, 2026
jerryu@doublethinklab.org,
https://dfrlab.org/staff/
https://www.linkedin.com/
Wei-Ping Li
weiping@factlink.tw,
https://www.factlink.tw/p/the-
https://merrill.umd.edu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
You-Hao Lai
youhao@dset.tw,
https://dset.tw/en/teams/you-
https://globaltaiwan.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Graham Webster
gweb@stanford.edu
https://profiles.stanford.edu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jerry Yu is a senior analyst at Doublethink Lab, where he specializes in conducting digital investigations and analyzing influence operations. In 2022 and 2024, Jerry has extensive experience in observing influence operations during both local and national elections, including training part-time analysts, managing data collection processes, and publishing reports based on the findings.
Drawing from his elections observation experience, he has collaborated on cross-national projects by sharing the experience and knowledge with journalists, NGOs, and researchers across South, Southeast, East Asia, and the Pacific region. The collaborations are to expose the techniques of influence operations used by threat actors and share the intelligence together. During the Ukrainian-Russian war, he tracked the propaganda spread by the PRC and published a report, ‘Analysis: How Ukraine has been Nazified in the Chinese information space?’
Before joining the Doublethink Lab, he was a research assistant at the Center for Survey Research Center at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he combined traditional social scientific methods with computational approaches to analyze the process, dynamics, and effects of human communication behaviors through the integration of user log and self-reported data from survey or experiment.
Jerry graduated from the Graduate School of Criminology at the National Taipei University, and is also trained in crime spatial analysis with the Temple University in the United States for a semester. He is also a co-producer and co-host of the “Jianghu 543” podcast, which provides insights into the lives of individuals in Taiwan’s criminal justice system.
You-Hao Lai is a practicing lawyer currently pursuing his doctorate at The George Washington University Law School. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Democratic Governance Program at DSET. His research explores legal and policy responses to the challenges posed by digital authoritarianism to cybersecurity and the free flow of information. He is actively engaged in various civil movements related to technology regulation and human rights protection. Before joining DSET, he worked at the Cogito Law Office, a prominent firm specializing in public interest litigation in Taiwan. Additionally, he served as a legal and policy advisor to the President of the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial organ. He holds LL.M. degrees from the National Taiwan University College of Law and Harvard Law School.
Wei-Ping Li earned her Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She serves as an adjunct lecturer at Merrill College and works as a researcher with UMD's Maryland Democracy Initiative. Li is also the research director at FactLink, a Taiwan-based organization dedicated to OSINT (open-source intelligence) investigations and enhancing digital literacy among Chinese-speaking communities.
Li's research focuses on the transnational dissemination of false information, conspiracy theories, propaganda and content moderation policy. From 2024-25, she held the position of postdoctoral researcher at UMD, collaborating with Dr. Sarah Oates and Dr. Naeemul Hassan on the "Disarming Disinformation" program, which is coordinated by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Li was also a research fellow at the Taiwan Factcheck Center (TFC) from 2023-25.
Before pursuing an academic career in journalism, she provided consulting services on digital human rights in Asia. She also previously worked as a journalist covering financial and legal topics in Taiwan for several years.
Li is a licensed lawyer in New York state. She earned her LL.M. (Master of Laws) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Soochow University (Taiwan), as well as a Master of Arts degree in journalism from National ChengChi University (Taiwan).
Graham Webster is a research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance and editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He researches, writes, and teaches on technology policy in China and US-China relations.
Before bringing DigiChina to Stanford in 2019, he was its cofounder and coordinating editor at New America, where he was a China digital economy fellow. From 2012 to 2017, Webster worked for Yale Law School as a senior fellow and lecturer responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track II dialogues between the United States and China and co-taught seminars on contemporary China and Chinese law and policy. While there, he was an affiliated fellow with the Yale Information Society Project, a visiting scholar at China Foreign Affairs University, and a Transatlantic Digital Debates fellow with New America and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. He was previously an adjunct instructor teaching East Asian politics at New York University and a Beijing-based journalist writing on the Internet in China for CNET News.
Webster holds a bachelor's in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University and a master's in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He took doctoral coursework in political science at the University of Washington and language training at Tsinghua University, Peking University, Stanford University, and Kanda University of International Studies.
- Healthcare Initiative: In March 2026, Google announced a partnership with Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA). The goal was to deploy a Gemini-powered, AI-on-DM (Diabetes Mellitus) model. This system is integrated into the "My Health Bank" app. It provides personalized, secure insights to 10 million users. The system improved diabetes risk assessment times from 20 minutes to 25 seconds per case.
- "Gemini Ignite" Program: This initiative began in 2025. It aims to develop AI literacy, enhance skills, and promote innovation. Over 100,000 students, developers, and professionals are involved.
- Education Focus: Google offers free one-year subscriptions of the "Google AI Pro" plan (including Gemini 2.5 Pro) to Taiwanese college students. Also, more than 3,000 teachers are training in "Gemini Academy". They are learning how to use tools like NotebookLM and Gemini in classrooms.
- Infrastructure & Investment: A new hardware engineering hub will open in Taipei. It will be Google's largest AI hardware center outside of the United States.
- Local Application: The platform supports Traditional Chinese. It offers localized, secure, and compliant AI solutions for companies and individual users.
- March 2026: The AI-on-DM model launched, providing quick diabetes risk assessments.
- February 2026: Gemini Live was demonstrated. It provided real-time translation and object recognition in places like Jiufen.
- December 2025/Early 2026: Gemini-powered features were added to Google Translate. These features help users better understand idioms and slang in Taiwanese Mandarin.
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