A man who filmed a video of smoking 100 cigarettes at once in a PC room in Ulsan was arrested by the police in October last year.
It is said that he did this because he thought that if he uploaded a video on the Internet, he would be able to gather a topic.
Earlier, a media outlet with 700,000 subscribers uploaded a video on social media raising suspicions about recycling side dishes at restaurants.
Criticisms and protests abounded at the establishment, but a CCTV check revealed that it was not true.
The restaurant complained of injustice by posting on the bulletin board of the national petition, and the one-person media producer apologized belatedly.
Why is the one-person media posting such unconfirmed facts or provocative videos? The one-person media market in social media is growing rapidly.
The size of the domestic single-person media market is estimated to exceed KRW 4 trillion.
Representative one-person media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have up to 2 billion users worldwide.
Unlike traditional media such as newspaper broadcasting, it is growing its influence and beginning with provocative content and fake news without regulation.
In the background, there is a profit structure in which the more views you get, the more money you make.
Unlike traditional media, single media producers are not subject to special sanctions or deliberation.
Experts point out that the current situation without even a minimum guideline is a blind spot in the law. say do
This week, SBS <News Story> would like to focus on the current situation and problems of single-person media posting provocative videos or fake news in order to increase the number of views.