00:00 On May 14th, the "Is This Your Man" Facebook page was created. The page has since racked up a whopping
00:07 55,000 followers with more than 100 men posted on the page
00:11 allegedly by women who they are said to be entertaining.
00:15 Now while the Bacchanal could be entertaining at times, the fact is these are real people, real
00:22 relationships and real lives. So it's hardly a laughing matter.
00:27 I'm here with one of the men who was posted on the page and he has come to share his side of the story.
00:33 Tell me about your experience. Well on my side the experience
00:38 to me it was
00:41 wasn't a nice one.
00:43 In terms of a lot of the information posted was fabricated. There was no substance
00:49 said.
00:53 Mr. X tells TV6 he knows who sent his name and photo to the page and
00:57 claims it was done out of pure spite and malice. As he says he was involved with a woman many years ago.
01:05 But he says to his dismay when he started commenting on the post the administrator restricted him.
01:11 A female goes sending some information
01:13 or just read a few lines with a picture or the man or they will never call the other person and say hey
01:21 look so making this
01:23 accusation on here. Do you have anything recent or anything to negate it or are you really pursuing this person before we highlight it or
01:30 whatever the nothing. They put a picture, they put a story and
01:34 you cannot message them.
01:37 You cannot defend yourself. You cannot send any information contacting well alright I was talking to this person
01:43 but like that was six years ago. You making it sound like it's yesterday. With the fairness in that
01:48 and saying that they call and say they're doing the Lord's work.
01:51 Me know God does work so.
01:54 Mr. X is also calling on members of the public to be wise. As he points out the intent of the admin may not be
02:01 as claimed.
02:03 You can try to reach a certain amount of people. When they ask for donation they could have nice because you ask them for PayPal,
02:07 $10, US, any amount they could send. So if you have almost 60,000 followers everybody send $60,000 a month.
02:14 For what? At the expense of good men character.
02:18 Meantime one man who has generated much attention on the page with multiple women sharing stories about him
02:25 says now that everything has gone public he is reflecting on some of his actions.
02:31 I understand some of these girls are hurt and
02:34 you know people can be as soon as they find a channel to vent they will do so but this is actually
02:43 defaming somebody because this is done on a large scale.
02:47 Right now my work is being affected by this. But he believes all parties should take accountability.
02:55 It's not like I drugged anybody or
02:58 force anybody. This is free will and I mean
03:03 some of them is saying oh we see the red flag, but you saw the red flag where you're still running in.
03:13 If you understand I saw the red flag yes
03:16 it was this and it was that and I saw this and I saw that but you're still running in.
03:20 So that mean what they are damaged too? I don't know maybe I'm damaged in a kind of way. I don't know.
03:26 All the way is going through things.
03:28 Meantime the cyber and social media unit of the TTPS says
03:32 members of the public mainly men have been reaching out in the hopes of getting redress.
03:38 Both the persons whose things were put up as well as
03:43 probably their significant other or some relative to the person also.
03:47 That you know they also feel the
03:50 distress that this page is causing to them.
03:53 But it's more men.
03:56 We are also aware too that a
03:58 female page has you know been created
04:02 similar to the male page.
04:04 Sergeant Walker laments that many people are distressed by the activity but says there's little the police can do at this time.
04:12 He's advising that affected parties seek the advice of a lawyer.
04:16 The situation with this it's not really
04:20 per se a criminal offense that is taking place.
04:25 This situation would more fall under
04:28 what you call defamation or character which is a civil offense and not a criminal offense and
04:36 thus will not really require any police involvement or inquiry.
04:42 However, we are paying attention to
04:44 this particular page
04:47 because of the mere fact of the cause and the indication that you know it causing some
04:53 distress. What we have been advising persons is that if they
04:59 see their image or some post about them and they know it not to be true
05:05 they can reach out to Facebook to matter and make reports of you know violations
05:12 or what they believe might be violations of
05:15 Facebook's community guidelines.
05:17 Renessa Cutting TV 6 News.
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