Morrissey Central <\/a>about his identity being used across social media and fake websites. The post read, \u201cEmerging online data is falsely signed in Morrissey\u2019s name in an attempt to associate the artist with false narratives designed to destroy his career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tMorrissey\u2019s latest catch up with the Web Sheriff, who contacted his former manager Merck Mercuriadis, thickens the plot. The nine individuals believed to be impersonating the musician, a new Morrissey Central post reads, includes someone who \u201chad connections to an ex-member of The Smiths.\u201d There are two others, it continues, who are connected to \u201ca generally unsupportive \u2018Morrissey\u2019 website operating in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe post clarifies that Morrissey\u2019s online presence is limited to Morrissey Central, even going so far as to stress that he has never owned a smartphone. His concern with the impersonations, it continues, is that \u201ctheir commentaries severely harmed Morrissey\u2019s status and character.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\n\tNow, Morrissey is gearing up to enter the next phase of addressing the situation he previously said is \u201cone of the worst and most malicious ever seen\u201d by the Web Sheriff.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe planned operation to take police action against the nine individuals requires appointment of two legal firms,\u201d the new post reads. \u201cThe financial commitment of extensive and unremitting expenditure is outside of Morrissey\u2019s personal capacity to shoulder. The next move is under consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A post on the musician’s website claims nine people are pretending to be Morrissey and “operating on behalf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,25528],"class_list":["post-496349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-morrissey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496349","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=496349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}