FOCUS: Conspiracy theories around ex-PM's death to be tested in shooter's trial

Conspiracy theories suggesting that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed in 2022 in a political assassination rather than by a lone shooter may face their own moment of truth when the accused killer Tetsuya Yamagami finally stands trial.Three years on from Abe's slaying during a stump speech for a national election, conspiracy theories like those that spread after the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy have been kept alive by the widespread use of social media and its capacity to disseminate misinformation, experts say.One focal point in Yamagami's trial beginning T…READ FULL ARTICLE