{
  "id": 9639809,
  "title": "Editorial: Japan must curb spread of false info on social media during elections",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/editorial-japan-must-curb-spread-of-false-info-on-social-media-during",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T22:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Mainichi",
    "slug": "the-mainichi",
    "url": "https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260924/p2a/00m/0op/023000c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "False and misleading information and defamatory attacks on social media during elections in Japan are becoming an increasingly serious problem. Rather",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}