The netizen who claimed to be T-ara‘s former backdancer earlier this year and fanned the flames of alleged bullying within the group has been detained at Gangnam police station.
The Gangnam police station’s cyber crime team announced that “netizen A”, who allegedly wrote that Jiyeon slapped Hwayoung
for a small mistake during practice, is being accused for defamation of
character. However, netizen A is claiming that he simply spread the
rumor, and that he was not the writer of the original post.
A representative from the police station stated, “After [rumors
of] Hwayoung being bullied came out, the news spread instantly, and
because the original post was deleted, it took a long time [to
investigate]. We were unable to find the originator of the post. Because
it’s still an ongoing investigation, we can’t reveal any more details.”
The cyber crime team explained, “Whether the statements
by the person who misrepresented himself as T-ara’s backdancer are fact
or fiction, because the statements could have had made [the group's]
image suffer, it’s possible that maliciously spreading the post could be
considered defamation of character.”
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