Bogus child pornography claims, fabricated support for communism and fake posts showing Elon Musk calling for his removal -- a deluge of disinformation is targeting a top judge in suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial.

South Korea's Constitutional Court has for weeks deliberated on whether to uphold a parliamentary vote to remove Yoon from office over his failed December bid to impose martial law in the country.

Leading the often-tense proceedings has been Moon Hyung-bae, the court's soft-spoken, liberal-leaning interim head, appointed to the bench in 2019 by then-president Moon Jae-in.

With legal experts widely expecting the court to remove Yoon from office next month, his conservative party and allies have launched a deluge of false and defamatory claims against judge Moon.

"The purpose of such attacks is very clear -- they are attempts to undercut the legitimacy of the impeachment decision," said Lee Jong-soo, a law professor at Seoul's Yonsei University, who said the impeachment was an "inevitability".

Among the most damaging disinformation were claims, debunked by AFP, of Moon's involvement in sharing child........

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