A lot of things are posted online that are wrong, misleading or utter rubbish. The task of discerning between the true and the false is becoming harder and harder and with the advent of more sophisticated AI, harder still. Some critics talk about a post-truth world, though I would argue that the truth will always be there. It will just take much longer to find it, if you're willing to make the effort

Photos are a common source of  such confusion, since software can now radically alter and recreate (or indeed create) with equally misleading descriptions attached. I don't know why its come to this - perhaps folks like throwing cats amongst the pigeons - but just about everything nowadays needs to be verified.

All this leads me to what seems like an innocent mistake. A Japanese page I subscribe to on FB posted the following photo (not exactly this one but the same shop) with the caption, 'a cafe in Japan'.

It is certainly not unlike many of the cafes I have seen in Japan, so I googled the name Cafe Chez W to check on its specific location, and found, not entirely to my surprise, that its actually in Shanghai, China. Now that is a big mistake - different country, people and language. Since the whole operation only took me less than a minute, I wondered why the poster hadn't made a similar check before.

The comments were fairly scathing as others had obviously done the same thing as me. Innocence, laziness or deceit? I don't know.