The social media account that first posted an allegedly manipulated video of Blackpink’s Jennie was suspended after her company introduced authorized motion.
A social media account that first posted a viral video purporting to point out Blackpink member Jennie exposing a part of her physique was suspended Wednesday, a day after her company, OA Leisure, introduced authorized motion over maliciously edited and manipulated content material.
The account and all of its posts, together with the Jennie clip, have been inaccessible as of Wednesday morning. The account had uploaded the video Saturday, and it drew greater than 12.5 million views inside about 12 hours.
The clip rapidly unfold throughout social media, the place customers debated whether or not it was real.
“[We have recently identified] the unfold of baseless defamatory statements and false info, the malicious enhancing or manipulation of her pictures and movies and the posting or distribution of content material that infringes upon her privateness and private rights,” OA Leisure mentioned Tuesday.
“In cooperation with authorized counsel, we’re repeatedly monitoring and amassing proof relating to associated posts and accounts, whereas actively pursuing civil and legal authorized complaints towards extreme violations.”
If the account holder used AI to change the clip, the case may fall beneath Article 14-2 of the Act on Particular Instances Regarding the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, authorized sources mentioned.
The supply covers enhancing, synthesizing or in any other case manipulating photographs or movies of an individual’s face or physique towards that particular person’s will in a method that may arouse sexual want or trigger sexual humiliation. Violations are punishable by as much as seven years in jail or a nice of as much as 50 million gained ($36,000).
BY SHIN HYE-YEON [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]
