My special thanks to Sophie Kaldor & Andrea Li for their close reading pre-submission. Also grateful to
@lucatardelli.bsky.social, Chris Alden, @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, Stefano Guzzini, Kate Millar, Alex Stoffel, Yi-Ting Lien,
Felix Brender Wang, Charlie Carter & Chris Deacon.

The empirics presented in the paper were accumulated over several months of fieldwork in Taiwan in the summer of 2023 where I interviewed members of the g0v and "open culture" (開放文化) community, to whom I am indebted. This fieldwork was supported by the Taiwan Fellowship.
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✅ Highlights the positive, active roles societies & social technologies can play in mitigating the harms of disinformation (Policy/Empirical)
✅ Offers a non-Western case study of resistance to disinformation (Empirical)
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✅ Posits a framework for whole-of-society resistance & socio-technical resistance to disinformation (Theoretical)
✅ Empowers the IR disinformation literature to transcend the state by accounting for the agency of civil society in responses to disinformation (Methodological)
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