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Lunch in the Floodwater, and 200,000 Accounts Off X
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Lunch in the Floodwater, and 200,000 Accounts Off X

Footage from a Chinese flood zone showing militia eating boxed lunches while standing in muddy water spread in Japan, where posters picked apart why anyone would film it that way. In the same stretch of days X said it had identified and removed a China-linked bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, of which about 200 were described as posting on US AI and energy policy. How the lunch clip came to be filmed is not established.

Chinese Claims on Okinawa and Fears of an Influence Campaign
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Chinese Claims on Okinawa and Fears of an Influence Campaign

A claim circulating from the Chinese side held that Japan's territory covers only Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu and nearby islands, with Okinawa belonging to China. In the same week, a man speaking at an anti-Takaichi rally was said to sound foreign, and clips criticising the prime minister were said to be mostly Chinese-made. None of the three claims is established, and threads argued over whether the framing swallows legitimate criticism of the government.