Cross-border misinformation: Mystery Seeds Shipped from China are Giant Hogweed
From June to July, there have been a number of cases overseas and in Japan where seeds of unknown plants were delivered in unidentified packages purportedly fro...
False: Tokyo infection figures can’t exceed 300 people per day due to the use of fax machines
A posting on Chinese social media network Weibo first seen on July 22 claimed “(At the Tokyo Metropolitan government) there are only two fax machines made avail...
Cross-border misinformation: Video explaining how Apple’s AR glasses work
On July 26, a Japanese tweet sharing a video posted by a user from outside of Japan claimed that the video was “Apple’s AR glasses concept”. This tweet went vir...
Cross-border misinformation: President of Ghana reveals a Covid-19 conspiracy
On July 20, a Japanese blog titled “President of Ghana reveals Rockefeller Foundation’s planning document” went viral with up to 1,700 retweets on Twitter.
Cross-border misinformation: Herbicide is the cause behind the tumor covered deer
A photo of a deer covered in tumors with a caption claiming it had eaten plants and trees sprayed with Monsanto's Roundup was posted in Japanese on July 19th an...
False: WHO changes course; No need to quarantine infected people
A twitter post purportedly showing that the WHO said that coronavirus patients require neither quarantine nor social distancing because “It cannot even transmit...
Inaccurate: Japanese government to subsidize half of travel expenses for foreign tourists
News that the Japanese government will dip into its supplementary budget to launch a "Go To Travel Campaign" in the hope of attracting tourists back to the depr...
Misleading: Finance Minister Taro Aso’s: Japan’s “fewer deaths than the West are due to the differen...
Minister of Finance Taro Aso told parliament on June 4 that Japan has fewer COVID-19 deaths than other countries because Japanese people have higher moral stand...
False: Japan’ s Supreme Court rules ‘welfare for foreigners illegal’
A twitter post of a screenshot of a NHK’s news video story with the captions reading that the Supreme Court judged for the first time that “foreigners are not c...
Fabrication: CNN doctored a photo of a man who fired shots into Black Lives Matter protests to make ...
A twitter post purportedly showing how CNN in the U.S. had doctored a photo of a man who fired a gun (into Black Lives Matter protests) to make it look as if he...