Morrissey has spoken more about his ongoing legal case, which sees him targeted by “the very worst case of online identity fraud”.
The singer and former Smiths frontman shared an update with fans last spring, writing on his website that he was involved in a legal battle after discovering that someone was allegedly impersonating him online.
He said that he had been in touch with an online protection firm called The Web Sheriff, who reached out to him to say that had “discovered an online campaign of fraud, disinformation and defamation” that targeted him.
“The scale of the manipulation is one of the worst and most malicious ever seen by the team, who have worked on similar cases for Beyoncé, Prince, Bob Dylan, Adele and Radiohead,” the update on Morrissey Central read.
“The campaign against Morrissey is characterised by fake websites, impersonation on social media, identity fraud, and sustained harassment on Facebook, X, Twitter, Instagram – all social networks that Morrissey has not ever visited,” it added. “Emerging online data is falsely signed in Morrissey’s name in an attempt to associate the artist with false narratives designed to destroy his career.”
It also added that the posts impersonating him stem back “several years”, and reiterated that the singer has “no personal presence on such networks, and has not ever possessed a smartphone”.
