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...
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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...
Unfounded: The man who won the Nobel Prize for developing the PCR methods says, ‘It’s not fit to ide...
“The Nobel Prize winner who developed the PCR method says that it is not fit to identify the virus,” Kunihiko Takeda, a Designated Professor at Chubu University...
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...
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...