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Fabricated article about South Korean wildfires inflames anti-Chinese sentiment


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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 .

The article from Yahoo News discusses a fabricated report that circulated on social media, claiming that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had blamed North Korea for starting wildfires in South Korea. This false claim originated from a manipulated screenshot of a news article from the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, which was altered to include the fabricated quote. The actual article from Chosun Ilbo, published on April 2, 2023, did not contain any such statement from President Yoon. The spread of this misinformation was debunked by fact-checking organizations and highlighted the dangers of manipulated media in spreading false narratives.

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