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Threat Source newsletter (July 21, 2022) — No topic is safe from being targeted by fake news and disinformation

Summary: After former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign speech, a far-right French politician, Damien Rieu, took a false 4chan claim that video game developer Hideo Kojima was the suspect and shared it on Twitter, and a Greek television news station aired a report repeating the claim before it was debunked. The newsletter also notes other false narratives around the killing, including a viral claim he was killed over COVID-19 policies and a manipulated screenshot purporting to show an Abe tweet about Hillary Clinton, and reports that CISA added CVE-2022-22047, an elevation-of-privilege flaw in Windows CSRSS exploited in the wild, to its known exploited vulnerabilities list with an Aug. 2 patch deadline.

What's compelling: The Kojima case shows a false claim moving from an anonymous forum to an elected politician's account to an international news broadcast with no fact check in between, and Kojima's company has threatened legal action - a recourse most targets of such a claim would not have.

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