Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co., Ltd. apologized for its inaccurate reporting which suggested that one of Japan’s top SNS influencers/model Darenogare Akemi did drugs in the past. Asahi put a notice on their AERAdot. (dot.asahi.com) as a notice and not as a new article. No headline (just aera.dot) and no apology mentioned but on the body of the text.
Asahi states, “The article has not been fully covered and the facts have not been confirmed and we take the criticism seriously, we will delete the article and we deeply apologize to Darenogare Akemi and LIBERA Corporation”.
Akemi took to SNS that if they wanted to apologize, they should send the correct and apology on their online news site. Akemi wrote, “It’s easy to obtain fake news. I’m sad because I can’t easily erase the negative image because of this article”.
Darenogare Akemi spared no time to fight back and pronounce her innocence and say the article was fake news.