[Periodic Report] Activity Report of UUUM's Specialized Team Against Defamation and Abusive Posts (January 2025 - December 2025)

UUUM Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director, President and Executive Officer: Masayuki Umekage, hereinafter "UUUM") established the "Specialized Team Against Defamation and Abusive Posts" (hereinafter "this team") in June 2020 to protect UUUM-affiliated creators from online defamation and abusive posts. We have been advancing our efforts based on the basic policy of strengthening previous countermeasures and taking more resolute legal action. In this release, we report on the activities, outcomes, and emerging challenges over the 12-month period from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, which marks the sixth year since the team's establishment. ## Activity Report of the "Specialized Team Against Defamation and Abusive Posts" January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 Specific response cases: 218 cases (Including perpetrator arrests: 2 cases, undergoing settlement negotiations: 2 cases, legal action against an anonymous posting site: 1 case) Deletion rate via warnings or reports to platforms: 94.3% (185/196 cases) *Reference (Previous Year) January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024 Specific response cases: 134 cases (Including perpetrator arrests: 3 cases, responding to identify perpetrators: 2 cases, legal action against an anonymous posting site: 1 case) Deletion rate via warnings or reports to platforms: 83.8% (88/105 cases) ## Trends Observed from the Numbers - Consultations/reports increased by 110 cases from the previous year (Last year: 432 cases, This year: 542 cases*), indicating continued high interest and awareness of defamation issues among fans. - In proportion to the consultations/reports, the number of response cases also increased. (Last year: 134 cases, This year: 218 cases*) *Although there were 542 consultations/reports, not all constituted a violation of rights or terms of service. Out of the cases deemed legally actionable, 218 actually resulted in concrete responses. - Significant improvement in the deletion rate from warnings or reports to platforms. (83.8% -> 94.3%) - Death threats trended downward with 11 cases compared to last year (19 cases). - Regarding privacy violations, in addition to unauthorized publication of addresses, names, and phone numbers, multiple instances were confirmed of the unauthorized publication of the faces of non-face-revealing creators and the names of the schools they attend. - Multiple instances of unauthorized use of creators' likenesses in scam advertisements were confirmed. ## Main Categories of Response - Threatening acts such as death threats - Defamation and insulting acts - Impersonation (posting inappropriate content or spreading false information via accounts impersonating creators) - Privacy rights violations (unauthorized disclosure of creator's address, real name, phone number, school name, undisclosed face, or private life details) - Publicity rights violations (unauthorized use of creator's name or photos in advertisements) - Copyright infringement (unauthorized reproduction of creator content, image alterations leading to a degraded image) - Sale of counterfeit goods ## Overview of Specific Responses - Threatening acts such as death threats → Collaborated with the jurisdictional police aiming for the arrest of the perpetrator. (Arrests: 2 cases, Closed due to early apology from the perpetrator: 1 case) - Defamation and insulting acts → Warnings to posters, deletion requests to platforms. → In cases of malicious rights violations, collaborated with lawyers to identify the perpetrator and claim damages. (Undergoing settlement negotiations: 2 cases) → Legal action against anonymous posting sites where rights violations are ignored despite being reported. (Collaborating with a lawyer to claim damages: 1 case) - Impersonation (posting inappropriate content or spreading false information via accounts impersonating creators) → Warnings to the other party, plat...