Last updated on February 22nd, 2025 at 02:12 pm
Recent months are also prevalent inprivate videos of Pakistani influencers which was leaked many times on social media causing debates over privacy and ethical issues. After the dramas involving TikTokers Minahil Malik and Insha Rehman, now TV presenter and influencer Mathira has also become a similar scandal.
The following publications suggest that some videos purporting to show Mathira in sensitive situations are fake. Such clips soon became a subject of discussion and were shared with a great many people within the shortest time possible in social networks. The videos though, have weighed a lot on Mathira who has categorically denied that such videos are real. She has termed those behind it as having edited her pictures and tried to bring her Character down. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Mathira voiced her frustration: “Often people are cheating on my name and my photoshoot picture and also putting things like this.” Please have shame! That’s why many people say “Get me out of this scrap.” Her fans stood up for her, accusing everybody else of violating her privacy and calling everyone to stop spreading this.
Unfortunately, similar events are not the first time to have happened to the online community in Pakistan. Earlier, another TikToker Insha Rehman found herself in the same situation after some of the sexually explicit videos of her leaked. The backlash from the leak caused her to pull the plug, so to speak, on her social media profiles. Prior to Insha, another TikToker Minahil Malik involved herself in controversy when her private video leaked out. Minahil later, denied the existence of the video while actress Mishi Khan exclaimed that Minahil released it to go viral.
Some of these leaks have affected specific people, whilst others have posed risks of online vulnerability. The phenomenon is largely hated on social media, people complaining of the increased cases of trolling and exploitation. Entertainers especially women are vulnerable to such a situation thus receive emotional and professional repercussions in the long run.
The public has been a divided one when it comes to the issue. Others have caused uproar, fuming for better intense digital laws to prevent dissemination of such information. Some have even uploaded random videos or even worse, contributing to the circulation of those videos. Other people claim that those people who forward or comment about these videos are equally as evil as those that have leaked the videos in the first place.
Well wishers of Mathira and other victims have called for the need to be considerate on privacy. Licensees’ further observations are that even downloading or forwarding leaked materials reduces the dignity of an individual, as well as encourages the emergence of different forms of improper content online.
People who have a deeper insight into this matter are convinced that to solve it, it is necessary to go beyond the creation of shocking news headlines. Although there are legal provisions that address privacy of digital information they are rarely implemented. Bioaffect has demonstrated that social media firms must act more decisively to pull such content quickly. On the same note, users have the responsibility not to demand the consumption of such content, and refrain from seeking it.
People are miss using my name and my photoshoot pictures and adding fake stuff in please have shame ! 🙏🏻
Keep me out of this trashy nonsence ..— Mathira (@IamMathira) November 13, 2024
These series of controversies demonstrate a tragedy in the computerized universe. Besides the aforementioned events, these cases are a painful illustration of how easily profiles of politicians can be attacked.
For now, Mathira has opted to defend herself by standing against anyone who will try and misuse her name. Her stance has found sympathy in many who are sick and tired of always seeing woman in the limelight being mistreated in such a way.
It also gives everyone a reason to pause and reflect on how they operate on the Internets. Privacy thus cannot be conceived as a mere right; it also means a mandate that everyone has to observe.