aespa’s company has taken agency authorized motion towards malicious on-line assaults and reiterated warnings about attainable authorized penalties.
On June 5 KST, the group’s company SM Leisure launched an official assertion offering an replace on their ongoing efforts towards malicious posts. The company emphasised that, based mostly on the collected proof, quite a few circumstances are at present below investigation, and in some situations, the offenders have already been discovered responsible.
Good day, that is SM Leisure.
We wish to present an replace relating to the authorized proceedings associated to malicious posts and feedback, deep fakes, manipulated images and movies, and textual content concentrating on our artist aespa, which represent defamation, insult, sexual harassment, and different offenses.
By way of stories from followers and our personal monitoring, we have now collected proof of malicious posts and feedback directed at aespa. Primarily based on this proof, we have now filed complaints on costs resembling insult, defamation, and the enhancing and distribution of false movies.
Many people have been recognized and are at present below investigation. In some circumstances, 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 have now gathered substantial proof relating to the posting of malicious content material and feedback—together with false info, 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 faux information and rumors. We’re at present making ready additional authorized motion.
We strongly urge everybody to not turn out to be instantly or not directly concerned in such unlawful actions.
Thanks.
