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The European Union is set to unveil new rules to, among other things, force platforms to give users the right to turn off "addictive" features.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
EU to make addictive app features easier to switch off
Official data showed “problematic” digital practices led to losses for individuals reaching �10.3 billion ($11.5 billion) a year.
The Tokyo District Court judged that fake ads on Facebook and Instagram infringed on Yusaku Maezawa's publicity rights but dismissed his request for an injunction against Meta.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
Tokyo court dismisses suit against Meta over fake ads involving entrepreneur
The ruling is believed to be the first judicial decision on whether fake ads impersonating celebrities infringe on?their rights.
Government guidelines on children's use of internet and social media will call for appropriate measures for each of six age groups.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2026
Japan to call for limiting children’s exposure to social media
A government draft says schools should help children develop their judgment so that they can use social media appropriately.
Protesters hold smoke flares during a demonstration in Paris on Nov. 7.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2026
Covert Russian network exploited French riots on social media, EU report says
A separate internal assessment found accounts linked to Israel and to the U.S. MAGA movement connected the riots to radical Islam and migration.
Sofia Kenin reacts after her win over Venus Williams at the U.S. Open in New York on Aug. 31.
TENNIS
Nov 5, 2026
WTA players facing abuse and threats on social media
The?WTA believes that there is clear evidence linking betting and some of the more serious abuse.
Author Li Kotomi speaks at a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2026
Politician ordered to pay ?1.1 million for outing author as transgender
A Tokyo court ruled that the disclosure of the author’s assigned gender at birth without her consent was an unlawful invasion of privacy.
U.S. President Donald Trump shows a printout of one of his posts on his Truth Social platform while delivering remarks to reporters at the White House in Washington on June 4.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2026
Bloomberg and trading firms to pay Truth Social for fast access to Trump’s posts
The social media platform founded by the U.S. president is said to sell speedier access to his content for up to $100,000 a month.
Bottles of Dongpeng Beverage Group's Bushuila electrolyte drink featuring French football star Kylian Mbappe on the packaging are displayed at a convenience store in Beijing on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Oct 27, 2026
Mbappe dropped by Chinese brands for ‘offending national sentiments’
In China, jokes about Mao Zedong, the country’s founding leader who died in 1976, are considered disrespectful and remain a social taboo.
A pranking trend called "Shorinji racing" has been spreading in Japan through social media in recent months.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
Minors detained over ‘Shorinji racing’ pranks in Osaka and Hyogo
About 250 incidents tied to the social media-driven trend of pranking were reported in Osaka Prefecture in September and October, police said.
As of Friday, there were over 1.5 million replies to X posts by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, out of which 7.5% mentioned foreign nationals or immigrants, according to a Jiji analysis.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 25, 2026
Replies mentioning foreign citizens surge on Takaichi’s X account
In some cases, comments against immigrants were repeated even when the prime minister did not mention policies pertaining to foreign nationals.
New Mexico has accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in the state about who had access to their data and its handling of hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2026
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case
The ruling came in a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
Tributes and flowers outside the electoral office of independent Australian lawmaker Helen Haines, who was deliberately struck by a car outside her office on Monday in Wangaratta, Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2026
Threats of political violence soar in Australia’s ‘online echo chamber’
Independent lawmaker Helen Haines was in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car.
Mobicom, a KDDI subsidiary, is the dominant mobile phone carrier in Mongolia, serving 1.8 million subscribers in a country of 3.5 million people.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
KDDI subsidiary faces criticism and questions over Mongolian wildfire
Mobicom is also likely to be hit with compensation claims after a company vehicle ignites a blaze in a nature preserve.
The health ministry has drawn up guidelines for advertisements promoting government policies in collaboration with films and TV dramas, following social media criticism over a cancer support campaign poster.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 18, 2026
今日吃瓜 health ministry sets new guidelines for tie-up ads in movies and TV shows
The move came after a poster promoting support for cancer patients that the ministry created in a tie-up with a film drew criticism on social media.
Russia has used social media to influence U.S. elections since 2016, according to U.S. intelligence assessments.
WORLD
Oct 17, 2026
Russia is using an army of bots to push fake U.S. election videos
The disinformation aims to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Saeko Nakano speaks at a news conference in Kyoto on Thursday after filing a lawsuit against a YouTuber and others.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 16, 2026
Mother claims YouTuber led to son’s suicide in filed damages suit
The YouTuber uploaded a video last year arguing that the son was “a massive merger and acquisition scammer.”
Yokohama District Court on Thursday dismissed a damages lawsuit against Meta Platforms and its Japanese unit over fake ads using celebrities’ names and images without permission, becoming the first of six district courts in Japan to rule on such cases.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 16, 2026
Yokohama court dismisses suit against Meta over fake ads
The court was the first to rule on a series of similar lawsuits filed with six district courts across Japan.
A man uses a mobile phone during a jeepney ride in Cavite, Philippines, on Monday, the same day the lower house of the country's Congress approved a measure banning access to social media platforms for children under 13.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 13, 2026
Philippines lower house approves bill restricting minors’ social media access
The Philippines is the latest country to try to curb social media use by children, as concern grows over its effects on their health and safety.
The latest proposed social media reforms in Australia follow a law, which took effect in December of last year, banning social media for users under the age of 16 in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
U.S. warns Australia’s social media algorithm reforms risk ‘facilitating censorship’
Under the proposal, platforms would be required to offer a default content feed, with the option to opt out and see posts only from followed accounts.
The EU's rules for social media platforms would include a ban on addictive features and push notifications while children sleep.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2026
Kids and social media: What would change under new EU law
The EU has been pushed to act after evidence has shown children’s physical and mental wellbeing are damaged by social media.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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