July 20, 2025
Japanese Sanseito party deploys Cambridge Analytica veterans
US disinformation tactics poison global democracy
🛂Immigration🌍Foreign Policy📊Electoral Systems
Japan's right-wing Sanseito party captured 15% of upper house votes July 20, 2025, after hiring American political consultants who deployed U.S.-style social media disinformation against foreign residents.
Party leader Takashi Yamamoto blamed immigrants for wage stagnation despite economists showing Japan's labor shortage drives the problems.
Japans right-wing Sanseito party captured 15% of upper house votes July 20, 2025, after hiring American political consultants
Cambridge Analytica veterans deployed US-style social media disinformation against foreign residents in Japan
Party leader Takashi Yamamoto blamed immigrants for wage stagnation despite economists showing Japans labor shortage drives problems
American political operatives exported hate tactics to 14 democracies in 2024, selling xenophobic messaging packages worldwide
Immigrant scapegoating template proves effective across cultures when fear drives voting regardless of actual facts
Allied democracies catching American political diseases weakens coordinated responses to China and Russia
TikTok micro-targeting and demographic fear-mongering spreading from US to Japan, Germany, and Brazil fragments democratic stability
🛂Immigration🌍Foreign Policy📊Electoral Systems
People, bills, and sources
Takashi Yamamoto
Sanseito party leader
What You Can Do
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Learn to recognize manipulation tactics now to counter them in 2026 campaigns: scapegoating, micro-targeting, and demographic fear-mongering
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Contact House Foreign Affairs Committee at (202) 225-5021 to investigate American political consultants spreading disinformation globally
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Support organizations like Alliance for Securing Democracy tracking foreign and domestic disinformation campaigns
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Follow academic research from Stanford Internet Observatory and Oxford Internet Institute on global disinformation trends
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Contact social media platforms directly to report political disinformation and demand transparency in political advertising
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Join local media literacy groups teaching communities to identify and counter manipulation tactics
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Support investigative journalism like ProPublica and Center for Responsive Politics exposing political consulting networks
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Contact your representative at 202-224-3121 to demand regulation of American political consultants working for foreign extremist parties
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Educate yourself about economic data and immigration impacts to counter scapegoating narratives with facts