Korean Police Raid Blogger’s Company for Rigging Comments in Favor of President Moon
It must be a slow day for the Korean police to warrant raiding a blogger for rigging comments:
Police on Sunday raided a local publishing company run by an influential blogger as part of a probe into allegations that he ran a massive scheme to manipulate online comments in news articles about President Moon Jae-in.
Police sent investigators to search the premises in Paju, north of Seoul, and confiscate evidence, including digital files and surveillance footage, officials said.
Law enforcement authorities are investigating the suspected rigging of Internet news comments by the 48-year-old surnamed Kim, who’s now been charged along with two accomplices over the scandal. Kim, who goes by the nickname “Druking”, is alleged to have used a software program to jack up the number of clicks in support of the president.
The incident has sparked a fierce political dispute ahead of the June 13 local elections, as Rep. Kim Kyoung-soo of the ruling Democratic Party, a close aide to President Moon, is known to have been in contact with Druking for years.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Friday said Kim had sent Druking messages that contained the web addresses of certain news articles related to the president. [Yonhap]
It’s a big deal because the Commies accused previous governments of playing around with online commenting and pushing opinion against the Moonies. People went to jail with their investigations. Now, they’ve been caught with their hand in the online cookie jar.
J6, exactly. This is huge, commie moon caught doing what he said President Pak did (though no evidence was presented that should she knew or directed it, convicted on a feeling she did something). Now commie moon is caught maybe he will visit the mountain comrade Noh took the one way hike.
“to have used a software program to jack up the number of clicks”
What kind of bullshit charge is that?
Just like the ones against Princess Park and LMB.
People like to say “must have been a slow day” for the cops when something like this happens. The simple fact of the matter is that the police, like any other multi-role outfit, has different squads for different purposes. In this case, it’s for potential mucking with an upcoming election.