Summary
On July 29, 2026, a social media post in Burmese language on Facebook claimed that an AEON Mall in Japan had exploded following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake, showing an image of a severely damaged shopping complex. CyberPeace Research Wing investigated the claim and found the image to be AI-generated, with detection tools indicating probabilities between 75% and 95% that it was not authentic. The research concluded that the image did not match authentic photographs of the affected shopping complex and that the claim linking the image to the Japan earthquake incident was false.