Vietnamese Samsung female employee arrested a male employee for spreading fake news by spreading HIV
Aug 13, 2024
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According to Vietnamese media VN Express, four men were caught in the northern Thai Nguyen Province who spread fake news that a local female employee of Samsung Electronics spread HIV, which causes AIDS (AIDS), to others.
Two of those arrested for distributing pornography are being investigated at the Po Yan Police Department while being released on bail because they are raising their young children.
An employee working at the same factory revealed the initials of the female employee's name, saying she was spreading HIV.
After that, he accessed the company's in-house network account, found a female employee with the same initials, and posted personal information such as photos and phone numbers to the high school alumni group chat room of the Vietnamese version of Kakao Talk 'Zalo'.
He deleted the information about 10 minutes later, but it had already been shared by others in the group chat.
The other three suspects were found to have shared many obscene videos in the same Zalo group chat.
According to the hospital report, the female employee mentioned was not infected with HIV, authorities said.
She reported the matter to the local police, and Samsung Electronics' Thai Nguyen plant also asked the police to confirm the authenticity of the rumor.
Earlier in July, a woman was fined 7.5 million dong (about 410,000 won) for spreading false information that a female employee of Samsung Electronics' Thai Nguyen spread HIV to several men on Facebook.
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