False: NY Times reports 90% of PCR-positive cases are misdiagnosed
Increasingly accounts have been circulating that the New York Times is reporting that 90% of the positive PCR tests had been misdiagnosed. These accounts were t...
Cross-border misinformation: Vladimir Putin’s daughter dies after receiving Russia’s COVID-19 vaccin...
A twitter post by a cartoonist Kobun Son claiming “President Putin’s daughter has died after being injected with the first ever vaccine for COVID-19 developed i...
Cross-border misinformation: Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missiles at Chinese fighter jets
A YouTube video titled in Japanese “Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missiles at Chinese fighter jets that violated Taiwanese airspace! They've successful...
Unsubstantiated information: COVID-19 patients in Fukuoka and Gunma commit suicide after suffering...
Several posts have been surfacing claiming that a few COVID-19 patients and their families in Fukuoka and Gunma had been driven to suicide or out of their jobs ...
Unsubstantiated information: Tokyo’s Yamanote railway line stopped displaying Chinese and Korean sig...
A photo of a display monitor on Japan Railways’ Yamanote line with the caption “[GOOD NEWS] The Yamanote Line no longer displays the names of stations in Chines...
Unsubstantiated information：The main chemical blamed in the blast that rocked the Lebanese capital h...
An article with the headline “The chemical ingredients behind the Lebanon blast – ammonium nitrate – had been imported from South Korea in 2015” was posted on A...
Unsubstantiated information: German high schools get free tests for the novel coronavirus twice a we...
A tweet claiming “German high schools are offering free saliva tests for the novel coronavirus twice a week,” posted on August 6th was retweeted over 2,900 time...
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...
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.