Fabricated article about South Korean wildfires inflames anti-Chinese sentiment

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:41:32 +0000

As deadly wildfires raged across South Korea's southeast, social media posts shared a fabricated news report alongside unsubstantiated claims that one of the blazes was deliberately started by a Chinese exchange student. The purported screenshot was created by combining two authentic but unrelated articles from the Herald Business newspaper .