Chapter 245

“You looked that up?” Marshall asked in amusement. “That was compiled by one of my colleagues at the firm. It’s somewhat exaggerated.”

‘While some of his activities may have been exaggerated, the journal articles and college degrees are all the real deal. Marshall is so outstanding that it’s unreal,’ Stella thought.

She smiled, “Since it’s already written on the website, we’ll consider it all real. If it isn’t, work hard to make it real.”

Marshall also smiled. “Alright. I’ll do my best,” he said and paused momentarily.

“I saw you deleted your Dusk Galaxy social media account.”

Stella thought he was worried it would be difficult to get evidence for the lawsuit.

“I’ve saved all of the screenshots,” she said.

“That’s not what I’m saying,” Marshall pursed his lips. “There are other ways for you to clarify those untrue rumors; there was no need for you to quit social media.”

“What other ways? Sue her?” Stella smiled. “She didn’t explicitly say my name, so she could deny it even if I sued her. If I didn’t quit social media, everyone would say that I’m justifying my actions, no matter what I post. It only takes one mouth to create rumors, but it’ll take much more to clarify them.

Since you’re a lawyer, you should know that better than me.”

Marshall was silent.

‘My so-called other way is just to let it be. Since she can’t sue them, she could just send them. legal letters and wait for the issue to die. However, this approach doesn’t count as clarifying anything. Once these rumors take root in the public’s minds, it’ll be difficult for Stella to clarify the issue. After all, nobody will continuously pay attention to it. While Stella’s method. of quitting social media is to inflict damage on herself and the opposition, it’s also the most effective and direct counterattack. Right now, nobody online cares if Kelly Harper’s interview is real. What they care about is that her so-called baseless exposé led to a voice actor with millions of followers quitting social media due to online bullying,’ he thought.

Marshall’s thoughts were the same as Felicity’s. They simply thought it was a shame for her to delete her social media account.

Meanwhile, Stella seemed optimistic.

“While I’ve already deleted my social media account, I will continue to sue whoever I need. To do this, I’ll need to trouble you, Mr. Moore.”

Marshall’s expression softened, “To be honest, I’ve been meaning to contact you for the past two days.

I’ve submitted a request to the platform, and they’ve gotten back to me. This is the information on the key members’ identities. Take a look.”

He unlocked his phone and showed Stella a few screenshots.

Stella glanced at the photos and frowned. Then, she swiped to the next photo, and her frown grew deeper. When she finally swiped to the last photo, she had an intense frown and was silent.

Marshall sighed, “When I was investigating the matter, I’d already expected something like this to happen.”

“Underage?” Stella was in disbelief.

The oldest mastermind behind the group which premediated the hate mail and online hate was 21, while the youngest was only 14.

Among nine of the key members, five of them were underage, “Does this mean there’s no way to sue them?”

“It’s not that there isn’t, but they can’t be convicted even if you win the case. At most, you’ll only get them to write you a letter of apology and get compensation from their guardians.”

‘If the accused are minors, the situation will become tricky because the law is always extraordinarily forgiving toward minors. When these keyboard warriors are on the internet, they cyberbully strangers by cursing them with the most vicious words. Some of the victims. suffer mental breakdowns, while some get depression. And the price these violent people need to pay is merely apologizing and giving compensation, simply because they have their protective shield of being underage. This is way too unfair!’ Stella thought.

She felt suffocated.

“Do you think they’ll realize their mistake just by apologizing?”