I Am From OO: The 'Fellow Townsman' Fan Page's Backend Is a Neihu Company and an AI Prompt That Was Forgotten to Be Deleted

30-Second Overview: You have likely followed at least one local fan page like "I Am From Kaohsiung" or "I Am From Taichung," which reposts night market news and weather updates, feeling like "us locals." In February 2026, someone caught an uncleaned AI prompt in a post on the "I Am From Taipei" fan page. Following this thread back leads to a building on Jihu Road in Neihu, Taipei, and a group of related enterprises run by the Lin family. They use AI to rewrite news from pro-China media into a "fellow townsman" tone, then distribute it in bulk on fan pages disguised as local residents of various counties and cities. The most ironic part is that it hardly fabricates news, so the ruler of "verifying truth" cannot measure it.

In February 2026, a fan page calling itself "I Am From Taipei" posted what looked like an ordinary local image-text post. The real problem was a line of text remaining below the post: "Remove sensitive words, strengthen Taiwanese local colloquialism" ¹.

This is an instruction written for AI. It was supposed to be deleted after generation, just as an author would erase pencil marks on a draft before submitting. But this time, someone slipped up and posted the instruction along with the finished product. The fan page "Kaohsiung Good Days" (@takaogoodday) captured this image on February 19 and made a summary; two days later, Liberty Times, Newtalk, and Formosa TV followed up on the same day ². A forgotten line of text掀开了 (uncovered) the entire backend operation.

Kaohsiung Good Days' February 2026 exposure summary: Lists the operating structure of LIFE Life Network, notes that content mostly comes from Zhongtian, highlights the residual AI prompt "Remove sensitive words, strengthen Taiwanese local colloquialism," and marks the office location at Jihu Road, Neihu. (Source: Kaohsiung Good Days Threads, report commentary citation)

📝 Curator's Note
Pay attention to what this instruction says. "Remove sensitive words" presupposes that the original draft contains words that Taiwanese readers should not see. "Strengthen Taiwanese local colloquialism" presupposes that the final product should pretend to be written by Taiwanese. In other words, this is not a fan page editor polishing text; it is a production line doing two things: erasing the origin label, then attaching a "local" label. The entire technique is usually hidden behind the finished product; this time, the manufacturing process itself leaked the filling.

The Backend Is on Jihu Road, Lane 10, Neihu

Following the clue from "Kaohsiung Good Days" to check company registrations, the backends of these county and city fan pages converge on the same address: 5th Floor, No. 46, Jihu Road, Lane 10, Neihu District, Taipei City ¹.

Under this address operates a content business outwardly using the names "LIFE Life Network" (life.tw) and "US-based All Access Group." However, breaking down the business registration reveals that it hangs one signboard outwardly, but behind it is a group of companies. Jishuo Technology Co., Ltd., Unified Business No. 89977832, established in 1995, Chairman Lin Xianming; Bosite Technology Marketing Co., Ltd., established in 2005, in charge of Lin Xiuzi; Nianjie Technology Co., Ltd., established in 2011, in charge of Xu Yunting ³. The three persons in charge are different, but they rely on Lin Xianming, Zhang Yujia, Lin Xiuzi, and Lin Zhaofeng, four individuals, to take turns listing names in each other's director and supervisor lists, combined with the same address, weaving a cross-shareholding group of the Lin family. It is not a single person named Lin Xianming; it is a family web.

Jishuo Technology (Unified Business No. 89977832) business registration: Representative Lin Xianming, registered address 5th Floor, No. 46, Jihu Road, Lane 10, Neihu, director and supervisor list consists of Lin Xianming, Zhang Yujia, Lin Zhaofeng, and Lin Xiuzi, four Lin family members taking turns. (Source: opengovtw, data from Ministry of Economic Affairs Commercial and Industrial Registration Public Disclosure)

The capability combination of this web is more noteworthy than its low profile. Bosite's outward brand is the online survey network POLLSTER, specializing in public opinion surveys ⁴. That is to say, this group produces "public opinion data" with one hand. The group's recruitment page also admits it is the "only unit in the country simultaneously operating social media websites, professional market research, news portal websites, blog broadcasting networks, SEO website optimization, and Facebook platform marketing" ¹, holding nearly a hundred fan pages as "distribution channels" in the other hand. Nianjie Technology's recruitment text writes even more directly: "Use AI text, AI images, AI video tools to produce interesting content, assisting over 100 fan pages in posting and material creation" ¹. Producing data, mass-producing content, and bulk distribution—all three things are in the hands of the same people at the same address.

As for the "US-based All Access Group" signboard, no company named "All Access" can be found registered in Taiwan, and the "ALL ACCESS HOLDING GROUP LTD." hanging at the website footer cannot find a corresponding entity in US state registration records ¹. "US-based" is more like a sticker pasted on the door, essentially the same thing as the "local" characters on those county and city fan pages.

LIFE Life Network service page under Jishuo Technology's name, platform advantages clearly list "Monthly Million Traffic," "Precise Targeted Marketing," and "Native Advertising Placement, Natural and Not Obtrusive"—meaning it can stuff content into your feed for the funder. (Source: aams.tw)

✦ It produces public opinion with one hand, mass-produces content with AI with another, and the third hand hangs the content on nearly a hundred fan pages disguised as fellow townsmen for bulk distribution.

Zhongtian's News, Wearing a Fellow Townsman's Tone

When you click on the "news" reposted by "I Am From Kaohsiung," you think you are reading local Kaohsiung media. In reality, most of this content comes from the Zhongtian Group and CTWANT ¹.

CTWANT's issuing unit is Wangdao Wangtai Media Co., Ltd., belonging to the Wang Wan Zhongshi Media Group along with Zhongtian Television ⁵. The political color of this group is no secret. Zhongtian News Channel was found to have violated regulations 25 times between 2014 and 2020, with cumulative fines exceeding 11.53 million NTD, the highest fine amount among TV stations; in November 2020, seven NCC commissioners unanimously decided not to renew the license, and Zhongtian stopped broadcasting in December, shifting to YouTube and the internet ⁶. Earlier, a 2019 report by the UK's Financial Times quoted sources from Wang Zhong's journalists, stating that the Chinese State Council Taiwan Affairs Office once called to issue editorial instructions, requesting support for specific candidates ⁵.

📝 Curator's Note
There is a clever time gap hidden here. When Zhongtian was a TV station, it was regulated by the NCC; violations would be fined, and eventually, the license was even revoked. But when its content is rewritten by LIFE using AI into "local image-text" and distributed on "I Am From Kaohsiung," readers see fellow townsmen, not Zhongtian; the source is washed away. After Zhongtian went offline and shifted to the internet in 2020, it had already left the jurisdiction of the NCC. A piece of content originally under regulatory supervision, bypassing the AI process, finally lands on a fan page where no competent authority can manage it. Every step of the entire path makes it further away from "accountability."

Zhongtian News Channel was fined over 11.53 million NTD by the NCC for violations between 2014 and 2020; after being taken offline due to non-renewal of license in 2020, it shifted to the internet, leaving the jurisdiction of the communications and information regulatory authority. Photo of NCC Yanping South Road Office. (Photography: Solomon203 / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Why use AI for this process instead of manual clipping? Scholar Wang Hong'en gave a key criterion. When studying similar techniques, he pointed out that deliberately "using AI to rewrite articles" is "using AI with the purpose of avoiding investigation and detection" ⁷. Because identical content repeatedly copied and pasted will be caught by platforms as homogeneous, leading to reduced reach. AI rewriting makes every piece look different, smoothing out the fingerprints of the origin. In this usage, AI is a weapon against detection: it automates and scales the "washing of origin," saving even the cost of manual copying.

Before Exposure, After Exposure

"Every now and then, the controversy of 'I Am From OO' fan pages is mentioned," is the opening sentence of "Kaohsiung Good Days'" exposure article ². This sentence is not rhetoric.

At the end of December 2025, the military issue fan page "New · 27th Brigade" had already named "I Am From Taipei" and "I Am From Kaohsiung," saying their "content is almost entirely news written by AI based on current events, accompanied by AI-generated images," and "all openings and formats are almost identical," suspecting behind them "organized actions for upcoming election public opinion operations" ⁸. This was about two months before the systematic exposure in February 2026; at that time, no one had pulled the thread to that company in Neihu.

And after being exposed in February, this production line did not stop. In March 2026, the same series of fan pages issued AI-generated fake images, spreading rumors that Taiwanese fans, after watching a game at Tokyo Dome, left "areas piled with bento boxes, beverage cups, plastic bags, and other trash," and "female restrooms were a mess," which was exposed as coming from the same source ¹. A content production line already named by national media continued to operate normally within a month after exposure; this itself explains one thing: no mechanism can stop it.

Another "She" in the Same Ecosystem

In June 2026, another wave of seemingly completely different things emerged on Taiwan's social media: a large number of dating accounts, with a self-introduction saying "In Taiwan, only marrying Taiwanese."

A citizen account ctchart.lab using AI tools for data analysis compiled a set of numbers: 252 accounts, 458 posts, with 99.6% concentrated in just three days from June 2 to June 4; at 10:37:53 AM on June 4, nine accounts posted in the same second; this "simultaneous posting in the same second" occurred 90 waves within three days; 32 sets of self-introductions were identical; the accounts' "factory specifications" were highly consistent: 100% single females, 98% marked as having no children, age concentrated between 30 and 49 years old, 99.6% of BMI not exceeding 20.5, 90 with a height of 165 cm ⁹.

The most critical column is geographic location. Of the 252 accounts, only 25 had "Account Location" marked: China 21, Pakistan 3, USA 1—Taiwan, 0. The remaining 227 were all hidden ⁹.

📝 Curator's Note
Seeing the elements "China IP + Pretending to be Taiwanese + Only Marrying Taiwanese," the most natural reaction is to blurt out "Cognitive Warfare." But the evidence actually points to another direction. What these accounts are truly doing is guiding people to add LINE "Sincere Dating," and directing targets off the platform is the fingerprint of "Pig Butchering Scam" fraud. Political trendsetting wants to keep people on the platform to wash comments and boost volume; it would never take people off-platform to LINE. Looking at geography: Pakistan is not a typical distribution of political cyber troops, but it is a known location of transnational scam parks: in 2026, Pakistani police raided a scam center in Faisalabad, arresting 149 people, 48 of whom were Chinese nationals ¹⁰. The same shell does not necessarily contain the same organism.

It needs to be clarified: the number of these 252 accounts was currently only produced by one citizen using AI via ctchart.lab, without third-party verification. It is a clue worth pursuing, not yet a conclusion.

Placing the dating case in this article is not because it is the same group as "I Am From OO"; they are likely two different things. It is placed here because it shares the same outer shell logic with "I Am From OO": a pleasant, harmless, "local" labeled identity, followed by an invisible backend. The difference lies only in what the backend wants to take from you. Seeing China IP and shouting "Cognitive Warfare," or seeing fellow townsman tone and believing it is fellow townsman, are actually the same kind of laziness.

"Coordinated Behavior" Is Not Equal to "Cognitive Warfare"

The most fitting academic term for "I Am From OO" is "Coordinated Behavior."

The Taiwan Information Environment Research Center (IORG) defines it as: "The behavior of repeatedly publishing the same or highly similar content, or the same links, within a short time on news media, social media, and instant messaging platforms" ¹¹. Note the restraint of this definition: it only describes "behavior," not presupposing it is overseas forces behind it, nor presupposing malice. Nearly a hundred fan pages with consistent formats synchronously reposting the same content fits the characteristics of "Coordinated Behavior," but "Coordinated Behavior" itself is only a neutral behavior marker.

📝 Curator's Note
The words most easily misused in Taiwan in recent years are "Cognitive Warfare" and "Cyber Troops." IORG researcher Wang Xi said a heavy word: "The element constituting 'Cyber Troops' is the existence of a 'monetary consideration' relationship"; if "whenever you dislike a discourse, you put on the hat of 'Cyber Troops'... it is very dangerous for Taiwan's public discussion," because "casually accusing cognitive warfare is exactly what information manipulators want to see"; the more you stick labels randomly, the better the real cyber troops can hide ¹². Wearing out the word is equivalent to helping the enemy clear a larger camouflage.

Even the person with the least reason to speak for this technique refuses simple attribution. In his 2021 TSSCI paper on Chinese cognitive warfare, Shen Bo-yang drew a "Diamond Model," laying out the initiators of information manipulation on a coordinate. In the "Economic Motivation" box, he clearly listed "commercial content farms, general YouTubers/streamers, fan page administrators"; in the "Political Motivation" box, are the National Security Bureau, PLA, State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, Publicity Department, and CAC ¹³. He wrote clearly in the paper: "Initiators who confuse the public's cognitive system are not limited to overseas forces" ¹³. Motivation is a continuous spectrum from commercial to political, with various "helpless" roles standing in the middle.

Even Meta thinks so. In its 2020 official statement, it wrote that when handling "coordinated inauthentic behavior," the platform "looks at behavior, not content, regardless of who is behind it, what was posted, whether it is overseas or domestic" ¹⁴, and admitted that coordination and authenticity are two spectra, not black-and-white switches. From Taiwan researchers to the world's largest social platform, the same warning is derived: look clearly first, then define.

Not Fake News Does Not Mean No Problem

If you use the ruler of "verifying truth" to measure "I Am From OO," you will measure an awkward result: it basically measures nothing.

Because it mostly reposts real news. The content reported by Zhongtian and CTWANT is not necessarily false; after AI rewriting, the factual level often withstands verification. Chung Cheng University's Huang Chun-ru distinguished two easily confused terms: disinformation is "malicious information," intentionally causing harm; misinformation is "erroneous information," unintentional error; the biggest difference lies in intent ¹⁵. By this standard, "I Am From OO" likely counts as neither, because it does not operate by "content being false."

Its problem lies in another layer. IORG splits information manipulation into three types; besides "fact manipulation," there is another called "source manipulation" [^6]: the source is hidden, disguised. "I Am From OO" does exactly this: washing away the Wang Zhong origin, attaching the identity of fellow townsmen. The content is real, but your judgment of "who this is, why you are shown it" is tampered with. IORG has an even colder metaphor: even if no one reads a single post, these contents are "accumulating local keyword inventory," serving as "fertilizer for future fake news" ¹¹.

And in all reports, the same reservation appears repeatedly: "Summarizing currently public information, it is impossible to understand where the clients and capital flow of this series of companies come from" ¹. This sentence is the safety valve this entire article must hold. No evidence shows Lin Xianming is Chinese capital or a CCP agent; all investigations found are "cannot be found," not "found." Existing evidence only supports a low-profile local marketing group in Neihu, a secondary distribution channel of pro-China media, an AI localization process, and an unclear capital flow. It claims it can "insert specific content" for funders ², but who that funder is, no one can find.

A Forgotten Prompt Editor, and a National-Level Content Farm

To see the position of "I Am From OO" clearly, the best way is to place it together with a true national-level operation.

In February 2026, Wang Hong'en exposed another case. A content farm called "Borderless Media," with a website hosted in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, "has direct contact with the Propaganda Department and CAC." Its residual AI prompt was written like this: "Targeting Taiwan users, using Traditional Chinese, re-edit this article, word count controlled at 500, retain the original article's opening part, do not change the original article's historical truth" ⁷. The "targeting Taiwan users," "do not change original article's historical truth" in the prompt is a top-down, politically motivated production line speaking.

Placing this prompt side by side with "I Am From OO's" "remove sensitive words, strengthen Taiwanese local colloquialism," the difference is obvious at a glance. Wang Hong'en himself separates the two very cleanly; he specifically reminds that some cases "are not just a domestic打工小编 (working editor) forgetting to delete a prompt" ⁷, implying that some cases are just that. One is a local business in a Neihu company greedy for traffic; one is a national-level operation connected to the CAC; one's prompt handles "local tone"; one's prompt handles "historical truth." They can be compared on the same gray spectrum, but absolutely cannot be conflated.

Control group: AI prompt residual exposed by Wang Hong'en on Qinhuangdao "Borderless Group" post—"Targeting Taiwan users, using Traditional Chinese, re-edit this article, word count controlled at 500, retain original article's opening part, do not change original article's historical truth." This is a national-level operation connected to the CAC, fundamentally different from "I Am From OO's" local profit-making prompt. (Source: Voice Tank / Wang Hong'en, report commentary citation)

Don't connect the thread too quickly; this is the lesson most worth remembering in recent years. In 2022 during the pandemic, after artist Guo Hanyun relayed "many children just left," IORG found at least 25 fan pages posting identical "many children left!" within 10 seconds, with the first comment all linking to the same content farm ¹⁶; that was textbook-level coordinated operation. But even in that case, Storm Media's verification reminded that mainstream media reports were actually earlier than the clustering push of those fan pages; "many fan pages posting simultaneously" does not necessarily equal an information war ¹⁷. Moreover, those named fan pages (Ai Jingyan, BuzzHand, that string) are not equated with "I Am From OO" by any public data. Kaohsiung Good Days says this series also posted similar content during the pandemic, but did not show screenshots or direct links. Looking similar does not mean it is the same group.

It is worth mentioning that the matter of "fake local identity" has a more pure political version in Taiwan. Taiwan Democracy Lab recorded during the 2024 election, an overseas group used hundreds of fake accounts to operate life fan pages like cameras, cooking, and art; fan page names and categories all belonged to life types, but post content only related to Taiwan politics and elections, and "all administrators' locations were located overseas" ¹⁸. That was "overseas fake accounts disguising as local." "I Am From OO's" disguise layer is actually one step deeper: it is "real local entity + local media content + AI-enhanced local colloquialism," using regional identity like "I Am From Kaohsiung" as turf, harder to dismantle than a fake cooking fan page.

Everything Is Legal, That Is the Problem

The most unsettling thing about "I Am From OO" is that almost every part of it is legal.

Registering a company is legal. Reposting news is legal. Using AI to generate image-text is legal. Accepting a funder's commission, doing native advertising placement, as long as interest relationships are disclosed, the Fair Trade Commission's testimonial advertising regulations cannot touch it ¹⁹. Assembling these legal parts together yields a machine impersonating fellow townsmen, with unknown origin, that can be inserted by funders, but you cannot find which screw is illegal.

In the past, the habitual way to talk about this situation was "governance vacuum." But in 2026, this statement needs calibration, otherwise it will be caught by readers who know the law. The vacuum has already been filled with one piece. The Regulations for the Prevention and Control of Fraud Crime Hazards, passed by the Legislative Yuan in 2024, commonly known as the Anti-Fraud Special Law, Article 31 requires online advertising platforms to disclose "commissioned broadcaster/funder related information," and mark whether AI-generated images are used; Article 32 requires platforms to take down fraudulent advertisements within a time limit, otherwise they bear joint liability for compensation with the funder ²⁰. The Ministry of Digital Affairs has already fined Meta three times according to this law, cumulatively 18.5 million NTD ²⁰. The "fraudulent advertising" vacuum has already been patched by a toothed law.

The problem is, this law only binds "paid advertising." It can manage a paid fraudulent advertising post, but cannot manage a free-operating, fellow-township-impersonating "I Am From Kaohsiung," because that is free-operating "content," not within the jurisdiction of "advertising." And the horizontal law that can truly manage "platform accountability, operator disclosure," namely the Digital Intermediary Service Act of 2022, was shelved in that year due to concerns about "internet censorship" ²¹, and has not revived as of 2026.

The Digital Intermediary Service Act, managing "platform accountability, operator disclosure," was shelved in the Legislative Yuan in 2022 due to controversy; as of 2026, it has not revived; patching the vacuum is the Anti-Fraud Special Law only binding "paid advertising," which cannot manage free-operating fellow-township-impersonating fan pages. Photo of Legislative Yuan Chamber. (Photography: Lin Gaozhi / CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

📝 Curator's Note
So the governance vacuum has not disappeared; it just shrunk—from "comprehensive" to "non-paid political and emotional operation fan pages." A fan page impersonating Taiwanese, not disclosing operators, not charging you money, only wanting to influence you, falls exactly in this shrunk hole: it is not advertising, so the Anti-Fraud Special Law cannot manage it; the law managing it still lies in a place no one dares to touch. Reporter Liu Zhixin used a saying: this ecology turns "citizens in a society" into "mercenaries of the hidden hand behind the scenes," called "recruiting mercenaries" ²². The recruited may not know they are recruited; you, liking and reposting, may also not know who you are working for.

So, Do You Still Know Who You Are Reading?

Back to that "I Am From Taipei" post, and that forgotten prompt: "remove sensitive words, strengthen Taiwanese local colloquialism."

What this sentence truly leaked is not that a certain article fabricated lies, but that an entire production line of manufacturing "identity" was exposed to the sunlight: first erase the origin, then attach local. After AI makes this process almost zero-cost and automatically avoids detection, recognizing the truth of a news item is no longer the hardest thing; it mostly reposts real news. The hardest thing is recognizing its origin and capital flow: who wrote this, why do you want to see it, who paid for it.

And what truly protects you is never a stance—whether it is CCP? Whether it is cognitive warfare?—because even those in Taiwan best at catching cognitive warfare are calling for not hasty labeling. What protects you is the ability to trace the source: ask one more question "who is this, where is the origin, who paid."

That forgotten prompt was caught this time. Next time, it will not forget to delete.

Further Reading

• Cognitive Warfare — The framework, boundaries, and "complexity over accuracy" reading principle of cognitive warfare
• Poisonous Potato Cognitive Warfare — How a narrative war "steps on the foundation of truth," belonging to the same paradigm of rejecting binary thinking as this article
• Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Local technology using AI to detect coordinated cognitive operations
• Taiwan Media and Press Freedom — The larger context of Wang Zhong controversies and media group structures

References

Image Sources

Most images in this article are screenshots of public pages, cited under Article 52 of the Copyright Law "fair use for reporting and commentary," with sources marked:

• Cover image / Fan page side-by-side: "I Am From Kaohsiung" "I Am From Taipei" Facebook fan pages (@Kaohsiung.Info, @Taipei.Info) screenshots.
• Exposure summary: Fan page "Kaohsiung Good Days" (@takaogoodday) Threads post screenshot.
• Jishuo Technology business registration: opengovtw, data from Ministry of Economic Affairs Commercial and Industrial Registration Public Disclosure.
• LIFE Life Network service page: aams.tw (Jishuo Technology) screenshot.
• Qinhuangdao content farm AI prompt: Screenshot from Voice Tank / Wang Hong'en article.
• NCC Yanping South Road Office: Photography Solomon203, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
• Legislative Yuan Chamber: Photography Lin Gaozhi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
• Dating account screenshots involve real photos possibly stolen; this article does not reproduce them based on privacy, presenting only with data and text descriptions.