Cross-border misinformation: Vladimir Putin’s daughter dies after receiving Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine
By Rei Ofuna (InFact) A twitter post by a cartoonist Kobun Son claiming “President Putin’s daughter has died a…
Cross-border misinformation: Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missiles at Chinese fighter jets
By Rei Ofuna (InFact) A YouTube video titled in Japanese “Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missil…
Unsubstantiated information: COVID-19 patients in Fukuoka and Gunma commit suicide after suffering abuse
By Rei Ofuna (InFact) Several posts have been surfacing claiming that a few COVID-19 patients and their…
Weekly Fact-checks: Photos of a Japanese highway circulating as being under construction in Cebu, Philippines
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Unsubstantiated information: Tokyo’s Yamanote railway line stopped displaying Chinese and Korean signage
A photo of a display monitor on Japan Railways’ Yamanote line with the caption “[GOOD NEWS] The Yamanote…
Weekly Fact-checks: An image with false caption of Japanese officials bowing goes viral
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Unfounded: The man who won the Nobel Prize for developing the PCR methods says, ‘It’s not fit to identify viruses’
Fact-check by InFact
Unsubstantiated information：The main chemical blamed in the blast that rocked the Lebanese capital had been imported from South Korea
An article with the headline “The chemical ingredients behind the Lebanon blast – ammonium nitrate…
Unsubstantiated information: German high schools get free tests for the novel coronavirus twice a week
A tweet claiming “German high schools are offering free saliva tests for the novel coronavirus twice a w…
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 …
