In an age when a single video can circle the globe in hours, a troubling new chapter in Japan’s battle with online falsehood has emerged, and it is unfolding not in some obscure corner of the internet but across the country’s most popular social platforms. According to Constella Security Japan Inc., a Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm, videos falsely portraying foreigners as stealing metal from railway tracks have been spreading widely across Japanese social media, apparently feeding a narrative that foreigners pose a threat to public safety. The firm’s investigation, released on a Saturday, revealed that these misleading clips, often accompanied by…

On the morning of September 23rd, along the busy stretch of the Yamuna Expressway near Jewar, a routine overnight journey turned into a scene of unimaginable grief. A private air-conditioned sleeper bus, bearing registration number BR32PA8647, had left Kashmere Gate in Delhi and was headed towards Mahoba when it suddenly caught fire around 11:30 am. Onboard were 35 passengers, many of whom had traveled through the night, hoping to reach their homes and loved ones. What should have been a comfortable ride had become a death trap. By the time the flames were extinguished, nine people had lost their lives.…