1. Caution Against Social Media Manipulation and Misinformation At the outset, the article notes that during the House of Councillors election campaign, a claim spread widely on social media that “one-third of welfare recipients are foreigners.” The author points out that this was “clearly a falsehood”. This is a telling example of why fact-checking is …
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