Experts warn of xenophobia as viral 'foreigner theft' video in Japan turns out to be unrelated clip
Social media posts claiming to show foreigners stealing metal from railway tracks in Japan, viewed about 4.3 million times, used footage lifted from an unrelated Arabic-language video posted overseas, a Tokyo cybersecurity firm has found.
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