Looking into some of the Japanese Twitter accounts that were crucial in spreading misinformation about the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it was learned in August that some of the same accounts actively spread other conspiracy theories in the past.The other pictured a female journalist working abroad for a major television channel.Others said, “It’s a farce.” However, the TV channel responded to a Sankei Shimbun inquiry, stating that in fact the journalist was not in Nara, where the assassination took place.And “Unclear events that cannot be fully understood without technical knowledge leave plenty of room to the imagination.” Their structure is very similar to that of the conspiracy theory that spread after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, which propagated the theory that President George W Bush orchestrated the attacks, he says as an example.Preying on Public Fears People tend to only look at information corroborating their ideologies or what they want to believe, explains Professor Yamaguchi."