Japan Fact-checks: Citing Only Convenient Data
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
CATEGORY Fact-checks
Inaccurate: Japanese government to subsidize half of travel expenses for foreign tourists
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Misleading: Finance Minister Taro Aso’s: Japan’s “fewer deaths than the West are due to the difference in the social standards”
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Japan Fact-checks: Be aware of information taken out of context
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
False: Japan’ s Supreme Court rules ‘welfare for foreigners illegal’
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Japan Fact-checks: Beware of medical statements without evidence
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Fabrication: CNN doctored a photo of a man who fired shots into Black Lives Matter protests to make him look white
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False: PCR test also detects common cold viruses
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Japan Fact-checks: Beware of Jumping to Conclusions
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
False: A nurse who tested positive for the new coronavirus is at the source of a massive hospital-associated infection (HAI) outbreak
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