Tokyo protest resurfaces WHO pandemic treaty conspiracy theories

A group of activists in Japan reportedly organized a protest to oppose the World Health Organization’s international pandemic agreement, which critics falsely claim will give WHO authority to mandate national pandemic responses. Some accounts claim that hundreds of thousands or even millions of people attended the protests. However, a security risk and crisis management agency noted that “several thousand” attended.

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