IVE’s company STARSHIP Leisure has offered an replace on its ongoing authorized response towards malicious on-line exercise concentrating on the group.
On Could 11, STARSHIP Leisure launched a press release addressing its continued authorized motion towards people concerned in spreading defamatory and dangerous content material about IVE members, together with the creation and distribution of deepfake supplies.
The company acknowledged that it has filed prison complaints towards malicious posts throughout numerous on-line communities and social media platforms primarily based on fan experiences and its personal monitoring efforts.
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We’re constantly taking authorized motion towards people who create and distribute malicious content material concentrating on our artist IVE (ANYUJIN, GAEUL, REI, JANGWONYOUNG, LIZ, and LEESEO), together with defamation, the unfold of false data, sexual harassment, private assaults, insults, invasion of privateness, and different types of malicious slander.
Such conduct is clearly illegal and can’t be tolerated underneath any circumstances or justified for any motive. We make it clear that we’ll not present leniency or make exceptions in these issues and can maintain all accountable events totally accountable to the utmost extent permitted by regulation.
On this occasion as effectively, primarily based on experiences from followers and supplies collected by our personal monitoring, now we have filed prison complaints with investigative authorities concerning malicious posts throughout numerous platforms, together with X (previously Twitter), DC Inside, Naver, Daum Cafe, Nate Pann, Instiz, TheQoo, MLB Park, FM Korea, Instagram, Fb, TikTok, and YouTube. These posts have been submitted as proof in prison proceedings, no matter whether or not they have been deleted, set to non-public, or whether or not accounts have been modified or deactivated.
We’ve got additionally secured substantial proof of actions such because the creation and dissemination of malicious rumors and false details about our artists, in addition to posts that ridicule, defame, or comprise sexually specific content material, together with the manufacturing and distribution of manipulated supplies equivalent to deepfakes. We’ll proceed to pursue strict authorized measures, together with each prison complaints and civil claims, with out leniency.
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