Citizen journalism reduces the credibility deficit of authoritarian government in risk communication amid COVID-19 outbreaks

• Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung, Wen-Chin Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1961-7804

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• Hans H. Tung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung, Wen-Chin Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hanstung@ntu.edu.tw

  Affiliations Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5332-7582

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• Wen-Chin Wu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung, Wen-Chin Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3229-4619

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