‘I’m in love with China’: Actress Eleanor Lee denies making derogatory comments about Chinese people

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Eleanor Lee has broken her silence on an online storm related to the release of an audio recording, denying that she had made derogatory comments about people in China.

It stressed that the recording and other related content circulating online are fabricated and untrue. It also urged internet users to stop circulating them, adding that it will take legal action against those who continue to do so.

Compare with the recent scandal involving Korean actor Kim Soo Hyun, which was triggered by a clip released on youtube. Regardless of whether the protaganist is guilty or not, the fact remains that social media is immensely powerful and destroy the careers of those who fall prey to it. Think also how social media similarly brought down Harvey Weinstein -- arguably the first victim of the Me-Too movement.

Of course, if both Kim Soo Hyun and Eleanor Lee are guilty as charged, then social media would have done the right thing here in exposing them. The question then would be whether the punishment meted out on them is proportional to the nature of their offense. Was anyone harmed? Where cancel culture is concerned, the penalty is usually largely disproportionate to the offence.

With the advent of AI deepfakes, it is now very easy to frame someone coz can make them say things which they did not....

For qns on social media, cancel culture, invasion of privacy, etc.

Qn: Fake news is the fault of social media. Discuss.