> In a nation with long-held Chinese traditions of etiquette, however, Meiyu is proving to be socially inept. Online chat groups often comprise several dozen extended family members. Openly disputing facts with elder relatives is considered bad behavior.

To heck with "Chinese traditions", "openly disputing facts with elder relatives" does not go down great in the West either, unless you've got a particularly feisty uncle who likes political debates.

Literally my first thought on seeing the headline was "wow, sounds like a great way to get disowned" and that was me projecting my American context onto it.

Have these people never heard of the phrase "pick your battles"? A bot has no tact, and will pick fights with fairly trivial nonsense and deeply problematic lies with the same assiduousness. Lots of things are not, strictly speaking, true. Not all false beliefs are damaging in the same way. Being technically correct is the worst kind of correct.