TOKYO — Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologized on Twitter on May 16 for editing a news program to make it look like some people had died of COVID-19 when in fact the comments used in the show were by people claiming that their family members had died after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
“Tsunagu kai,” a Kyoto Prefecture-based association of bereaved families of people who died after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, cooperated for the NHK program.
They reportedly spoke about the circumstances of their family member’s death and their opposition to the vaccine, but on a News Watch 9 broadcast on May 15, the content could be taken to mean that they had lost family members due to infection with the coronavirus.
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