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“A detailed review of the group’s social media channels in the wake of these protests, as well as interviews with scholars, journalists, and a former chairman of the group’s political party, show that Happy Science has established growing ties to conservative leaders in the U.S. What previous reporting missed is that Happy Science, following a strategy established by other fringe religions, has also built a social media apparatus to import harmful disinformation peddled by the American far-right and circulate it in Japan in service of its own political agenda.” —
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