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Japan-Based Messaging Platform Might Just Help End Fake News, Online Mobs

Hoshu SNS, the secure social networking service developed by AI and machine learning expert Shohei Ohsawa, is slated for a full-on start in September of 2021 . T OKYO, JAPAN -- ( Arab Newswire ) -- The past couple of years have witnessed a disturbing trend in data security in Japan — in a word, downwards. In December of 2020, Japanese online marketing giant Rakuten announced that data for nearly 1.5 million customers had been exposed to access from outside of Japan . LINE, one of the most popular messaging systems in Japan, is owned by a company in South Korea — a country increasingly hostile to Japan. Earlier in 2021, it was revealed that LINE had made Japanese users’ information available to technicians in the People’s Republic of China , one of the world’s most notorious sponsors of cyber warfare . TikTok has been accused of spying on users for the Chinese government.  Experts inside of Japan are increasingly warning of Japan’s vulnerability to cyberattacks. And Chi