Woman's suicide lie prompts drama on TV show, Internet
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Shanghai Daily, January 4, 2012
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Xiao Yanqin [File photo] |
Jiang lost his job due to a "human search engine," which refers to tracking down someone's identity by netizens using their human network when someone is in the spotlight. Private information about the husband and the mistress, including their names, photos, phone numbers, home and work addresses, were leaked throughout the Internet.
"After we divorced in November, Xiao hired the team to spit on my life in revenge," Jiang said in his blog. "She has won sympathy from the netizens and used them to attack me and Yu and our families."
After the woman suddenly showed up on TV on Monday night to admit that she let her relatives lie to everyone, some suspected the whole issue was a publicity stunt staged by the TV station for its new talk show program.
"It's probably the best drama that I have ever watched in 2011," said local resident Zhang Qian on her microblog on Weibo.com. "It was a tragedy and then turned into a comedy. But after that, what else can we believe on the Internet?"
Jiang, the woman's ex-husband, published another announcement on his blog after the TV show to "strongly condemn Xiao and the team behind her to make the stunt."
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