This is from yesterday - it involved a Washington Post employee.
Here’s TIME from just a few hours ago
“Social media platforms over the weekend were brimming with sarcastic critiques of Fukushima’s newest unofficial mascot, Fukuppy, after a local refrigerator manufacturer in the disaster-struck prefecture unveiled their latest publicity creation.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/14/look-its-fukuppy-to-the-rescue/#ixzz2hhVmRXLI
And here’s CNN:
Truth is stranger than fiction. #Fukushima‘s new “cute” mascot is Fukuppy. http://www.fukusima.co.jp/ #CNN
And actually, MSM, Twitter was debunking this myth three days ago.
It was there if you knew how to look for it?
FTR, Fukushima is a family name as well as a place name.
FTR, “.co” in a URL means company, not government.
On It Goes…