Filipino Town Bans Gossip in Bid to Stop Rumors from Spreading
Authorities in Binalonan, a small Filipino town about 200 kilometres north of Manila, have made gossiping illegal under a new local law aimed at preventing rumors from spreading within the community. Trash talking someone in Binalonan could see offenders literally picking up trash under a new local law designed to make people take responsibility for the things […]
Man Suffers Heart Attack After Following Viral Online “Health Tip”
There’s an abundance of health tips going around on social media these days, but as this story shows, some of them can actually have fatal consequences. Zhou Xin, a 58-year-old man from Harbin China, recently became the victim of online fake news shared on the internet. The viral news snippet claimed that his home city […]
Japan Railways Allegedly Keeps Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
Last Friday, China’s CCTV News posted a heart-warming story on Facebook about how Japanese railway authorities are keeping a train station in a remote village open for the sake of only one passenger – a high school student. “The Kyu-Shirataki-Shirataki train station is located in Japan’s north island of Hokkaido,” the post read. “Three years […]