aespa’s company has taken agency authorized motion in opposition to malicious on-line assaults and reiterated warnings about potential authorized penalties.
On June 5 KST, the group’s company SM Leisure launched an official assertion offering an replace on their ongoing efforts in opposition to malicious posts. The company emphasised that, based mostly on the collected proof, quite a few instances are at present beneath investigation, and in some situations, the offenders have already been discovered responsible.
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We want to present an replace concerning the authorized proceedings associated to malicious posts and feedback, deep fakes, manipulated photographs and movies, and textual content concentrating on our artist aespa, which represent defamation, insult, sexual harassment, and different offenses.
By stories from followers and our personal monitoring, we’ve got collected proof of malicious posts and feedback directed at aespa. Primarily based on this proof, we’ve got filed complaints on expenses corresponding to insult, defamation, and the enhancing and distribution of false movies.
Many people have been recognized and are at present beneath investigation. In some instances, remaining responsible verdicts have been issued, leading to three years of imprisonment with 5 years of probation in addition to fines.
As on this case, we’ve got gathered substantial proof concerning the posting of malicious content material and feedback—together with false data, defamation, sexual harassment, insults, and mockery—on private social media accounts and varied on-line communities concentrating on aespa in addition to the distribution of movies and pictures containing pretend information and rumors. We’re at present making ready additional authorized motion.
We strongly urge everybody to not turn into instantly or not directly concerned in such unlawful actions.
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