{"id":471215,"date":"2026-05-28T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:53:13","slug":"kanye-west-label-boss-sues-to-unmask-figure-behind-defamatory-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471215\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Label Boss Sues to Unmask Figure Behind ‘Defamatory’ Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMusic executive Larry Jackson is suing to identify the anonymous person or people behind what he describes as a \u201ccoordinated, malicious, and ongoing campaign\u201d targeting him, his independent label Gamma, and the label\u2019s artists. He says the \u201creputational warfare\u201d started after an article cast him as one of the masterminds of Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s \u201crisky comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the 12-page complaint, filed in New York and obtained by Rolling Stone, Jackson says that shortly after Bloomberg published its story<\/a> on April 23, an unidentified figure launched the websites \u201clarryjacksonexposed.com\u201d and \u201cgammaexposed.com.\u201d The sites published \u201cfalse, misleading, and defamatory statements\u201d about Jackson and his business, the complaint says, including an allegation that he used \u201cbot-generated purchases\u201d to artificially inflate sales figures for Bully<\/a>, the latest album by West, now known as Ye.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe websites also \u201cfalsely state that Mr. Jackson \u2018lied\u2019 to Gamma\u2019s staff about a contractual provision with Kanye West\u201d that said the artist \u201cwould be dropped if he had any racist or antisemitic outburst,\u201d the lawsuit says. According to the complaint, the sites claimed employees \u201cfound out [Jackson] lied to them\u201d when the contract \u201cgot uploaded to company files.\u201d Jackson says the allegation is not true and \u201cfalsely imputes dishonesty and deception in Mr. Jackson\u2019s management of Gamma.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson, an industry veteran who produced music for Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson before he joined Interscope and later served as global creative director at Apple Music, says whoever was behind the alleged attack also used a coordinated network of bot accounts on X and Reddit to amplify the defamatory content. The effort made \u201cthe campaign appear organic when in fact it was orchestrated by a single actor or group of actors working in concert,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson, who declined to comment for this story, says the alleged smear campaign has caused him substantial harm. He says his company tried to investigate the websites but found they were part of a network that masks \u201cthe true hosting origin server IP address.\u201d Jackson says he needs the court system to help identify the alleged perpetrators, likely through subpoenas.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe new lawsuit is similar to one filed in 2022 by the band All Time Low to unmask three anonymous individuals<\/a> who claimed in social media posts that group members sexually harassed or assaulted teen fans. The band eventually dropped the complaint<\/a> saying their investigation proved the claims were \u201cfalse and damaging online rumors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tJackson\u2019s claims also echo allegations in the ongoing legal battle between Australian actress Rebel Wilson and producer Amanda Ghost. In that case, Ghost claimed that \u201csmear\u201d websites were launched against<\/a> her by the same crisis management firm that became embroiled<\/a>\u00a0in Blake Lively\u2019s legal war with Justin Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGamma and its artists are being subjected to a new and insidious form of corporate interference and harassment, unique to the social media and artificial intelligence age, in which anonymous actors deploy bot networks to astroturf a false narrative into the public consciousness without even a semblance of truth or accountability,\u201d Jackson\u2019s lawsuit says. \u201cGamma has no choice but to fight back, not only for itself but also for its investors, business partners, employees, and artists, against those who would weaponize technology to destroy reputations and livelihoods behind a veil of anonymity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music executive Larry Jackson is suing to identify the anonymous person or people behind what he describes as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2126,47452,93,61,60,26614,278],"class_list":["post-471215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-controversy","tag-courts-and-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kanye-west","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}