Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 568 Embarrassing Reversal

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As another subsidiary of the Westeros system from obscurity to rapid rise, Nokia's stock price surged on its first day of listing, once again becoming the subject of mainstream media around the world.

After the weekend, a Nokia-led preview article in the latest North American issue of Forbes became the hottest topic at the end of August.

"Forbes" magazine stated in the article that it will officially announce the 1993 list of the 400 richest people in the United States on September 6, and the list of the world's richest people will also be launched in November.

If it was a few years ago, the position of the richest man in the United States and even the world may still be in suspense. The Japanese real estate tycoons, the Walton family, etc. are all quite strong competitors.

In the current rich list, there is almost no suspense about the top position.

The only thing everyone is curious about is how much Simon Westeros' net worth has increased this year.

The lawsuits and media clamor surrounding the 58list scam has not been mitigated by Nokia's listing and the upcoming Forbes rich list, but it has intensified.

After the "San Francisco Chronicle" followed up on the fraud case, other print media responded one after another, and various parts of the United States raised various questions about 58list.

On August 23, a Chicago city councilman publicly accused Igret in the local "Chicago Sun" for allowing irresponsible citizens to publish pit bulls that are strictly prohibited in the Chicago area on the 58list website.

The Houston Chronicle in Texas published screenshots of evidence claiming to have found illegal sex information on the 58list website.

A pair of young Miami parents want to sell their three-month-old daughter on 58list.

A user in Washington found his stolen car on the New York City plate.

so many kinds.

Meanwhile, other cases similar to the San Francisco job-hunting scam have appeared in the newspapers.

After the initial silent wait-and-see, taking advantage of this fraud case, the traditional paper media almost invariably made a sudden effort, apparently intending to kill the 58list website, which had been in operation for less than a month, in its cradle.

Public opinion continued until later, when a Republican senator in the US Congress said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would submit a congressional hearing on whether the 58list website of Igret Corporation was suspected of condoning criminal acts and endangering public safety, in order to decide whether to do so. Initiate further investigations and lawsuits.

The rebound of traditional paper media was completely expected.

According to the user data released by major operators in July and August, in the first half of 1993 as of June 30, only in the United States, the number of World Wide Web access users has reached 37.69 million, covering more than 60 million netizens. It is estimated that 1993 Throughout the year, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States will reach about 46 million, covering nearly 75 million netizens.

There are 75 million Internet users, which is close to 30% of the total population of 260 million in the United States.

Although there is still a big gap from TVs and telephones, which cover more than 90% of household appliances, it is still impossible to ignore the fact that these 30% users are definitely the most powerful group of people in the United States.

Similarly, these people are also the most high-quality customers of the US paper media industry.

Even though many people are still reluctant to admit it, however, with the rapid popularization of the Internet, the decline trend of the traditional paper media industry is becoming more and more obvious.

Users only need to spend tens of dollars per month to enjoy richer and more timely news, email, social networking, online games and other services, and naturally do not need to subscribe to traditional newspapers.

In the original time and space, in June 1993, the New York Times Group acquired another large East Coast newspaper, The Boston Post, for $1.1 billion.

Probably feeling the decline of the paper media industry, although this transaction has also happened, the transaction volume is only 800 million US dollars, and the price has dropped by almost 30%. This change is obviously affected by the rise of Internet media.

The traditional print media industry has probably been waiting for some opportunity.

The opening of the 58list website and the occurrence of the San Francisco fraud case finally gave the traditional paper media an excuse to attack Igret.

After all, in just over half a month, the millions of classified advertisement information on the 58list website has already caused potential losses of hundreds of millions of dollars to the classified advertisement business of traditional paper media. If the free classified information website of the Internet platform becomes popular from now on, the annual advertising revenue of traditional paper media of 20 billion US dollars will be wiped out.

The huge loss of 20 billion US dollars, if not very scattered among thousands of newspapers in the United States, involves such a huge amount of industrial income, not to mention murder and arson, even a war is enough.

It is not that American print media groups have not incited wars.

Simon attached great importance to the performance of this public opinion crisis, and personally participated in the formation of a crisis management team for this incident. However, he did not actually feel that he was facing a great enemy.

Such a historical trend at the level of an industrial revolution cannot be resisted by one or two public opinion offensives.

Even if the 58list website was shut down due to pressure in the end, Igreit actually didn't lose much.

The fire has been lit, and even if 58list shuts down, there will inevitably be more classified information websites.

Without the strong strength of Igreat

Support, those classified information websites of mixed quality can only bring more potential threats to users, let alone use private investigation teams to protect users' rights and interests.

It took only three days for a team led by Martin Dienham to identify the suspect, but problems arose during the tracing phase.

Probably because it felt that things were going to be big, and by the time the team found the residences of some suspects, the targets had already fled in advance. Fortunately, through more follow-up clues, the investigation team further confirmed the identity of the suspected target.

Originally, it was only necessary to let the victim confirm and issue a wanted order through official channels. However, these days, it is clear that some people do not want this fraud case to be detected. The San Francisco police who should have performed well after the case received widespread media attention Apparently very slack.

Even the two victims who had agreed to cooperate with the Igreit team in the investigation abruptly stopped contacting Igreat, each time with only the lawyer's official rhetoric.

It is conceivable that once a wanted order is issued, the suspect will only flee to a more hidden place. With the attitude shown by the San Francisco police, it will be more difficult to catch someone.

Simon made up his mind to use this incident to stand out and warn potential criminals who wanted to commit crimes on the Igret platform.

Aware of the official sluggishness, Simon directly mobilized half of his intelligence team to gather in San Francisco. At the same time, he also quietly released the three suspects whose identities were confirmed at 100,000 each. Dollar bounty.

$100,000 a head is definitely not a small sum for a gang spread across North America far more well-informed than the official one.

It doesn't have to be that much money to hire a professional killer.

So, less than a week after the bounty spread, news came quickly that someone in charge of the matter had Martin Dinham, who was in charge of the matter, rush to Tijuana, Mexico, on the border with southern California, to pick him up with cash.

Sure enough, he escaped to Mexico.

If an official arrest warrant is issued, unless those people return to the United States, it would be wishful thinking to arrest people.

Moreover, not the three people who posted the bounty, but a total of five.

The local gang in Tijuana is very generous. Of course, they don’t know why these people were offered a reward. However, since only three people were offered a reward, they only received $300,000. The other two were given away for nothing, and they sincerely expressed their hope There are also opportunities to 'co-operate'.

After all, there are a lot of people who escape from the United States to Mexico every year for various reasons.

If it's all that valuable, it's a big business.

The gang leader who approached Martin Dienham also said that people can be disposed of directly in Mexico, which is much less risky than bringing them back to North America, and only a little extra money can make a few people disappear completely. At that time, a few unlucky bastards who were tied up with five flowers and placed next to them like goods were scared to pee their pants on the spot.

Immediately, amid the clamor of public opinion, five fraudsters suddenly appeared and walked into the local police station in San Francisco to surrender.

Under the victim's confession and various other evidences, the criminals appeared in front of them. Even if they didn't want to solve the case, the officials could not continue to slaughter the mud, so the five-person fraud gang was quickly and formally arrested.

However, this is just the beginning.

When the various paper media have not yet reacted to the trend of accusing Igret, another news broke out. After interrogation, this fraud gang turned out to be a long-running habitual offender. Before committing fraud through the 58list website, they also relied on traditional newspapers. 's classified information ads have carried out many scams, but have never been caught.

Until I was caught in this 'novel' online deception.

Because of the big trouble, the photos of the five suspects were quietly circulated on the Internet, as if to confirm the confessions of the five people. In Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and other places, the victims came forward and confessed that they had encountered the five people. scams, most of which are duped through classified information advertisements in traditional print media.

This time it became lively.

Igreit's crisis management team for this incident has been distinguishing one thing for a while. The scams on 58list and similar cases through traditional paper media are very common. Igreit's portal also listed a series of comparisons. More serious cases of fraud.

It's just that the traditional paper media that crusade 58list one-sidedly naturally chose to ignore it.

Everyone is talking about things, don't talk about anything else.

Now, well, let's get down to business.

The criminal gang in this incident carried out job-hunting scams across North America through traditional paper media. In just a few days, it was confirmed that there were 7 cases with police plans. For so many criminal incidents, the relevant newspapers did not give the victims a single To be clear, the police have not solved the case.

Now, just starting to commit crimes on 58list, the entire gang was caught in less than half a month.

So, which is more reliable, traditional paper media or online platforms? In the end which is the real connivance of crime? Which one can better protect the interests of users?

People's eyes are sharp.

During this period of time, the Igreit Portal has been very candidly introducing the details of the incident and the progress of the case to users in a prominent position on the website, and has also given official responses and solutions to various questions in the newspapers. Therefore, although the traditional paper media is almost a one-sided crusade against 58list, this free classified information service platform has not been affected much, but has become more and more popular.

With the detection of the job fraud case in San Francisco and the unexpected reversal of the details of the case, public opinion

The situation is even more one-sided in favor of the Igrit portal.

After all, although the traditional paper media still has a strong ability to spread public opinion, the same is true of the Igreit portal, which almost monopolizes the Internet entrance.

The entire North America has more than 60 million netizens, and the average number of users who use the Yggrete portal every day has reached 20 million. Such an information dissemination platform covering the entire United States has far surpassed any newspaper in the federal government.

When things have developed to this level, it is obviously the most correct choice to die, but some people are obviously not reconciled.

So another inside story came out.

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, the five members of the fraud gang publicly stated that they had been illegally detained and threatened with death by Igret, and had to surrender to the police in order to save their lives. The five suspects later announced that they would sue Igret for serious violations of civil rights.

The media suddenly became lively again.

Then there were tabloids that exposed more detailed insider stories. In order to catch this fraud gang, Igreat Company actually issued a reward to the entire U.S. and even the underground world of Mexico. Moreover, Igreat Company seems to be also working with Mexico. Gangs are involved.

The media exposure of these big materials is obviously trying to discredit Igret and even the entire Westeros system. However, things obviously did not follow the development of some people's minds.

The people who eat melons only feel that the excitement is getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, Westerners do not have a very clear black-and-white value, which can be seen from the frequent whitewashing of bad guys in many Hollywood blockbusters.

In order to catch a group of fraudsters, Igret Company did not hesitate to issue a bounty to the whole of North America, and also chased people across the country to Mexico to tie them back. This is completely a super Robin Hood-style chivalrous behavior.

As for wrongful detention and death threats?

You are the villains.

Shouldn't villains be treated like this?

Of course, Igreat strongly denies the allegations made by the media and fraud gangs.

Unlawful detention does not exist.

Death threats?

You have the ability to let the Mexican gang come forward to testify for you?

Of course, if someone continues to use the Igreit network platform to commit crimes, Igreat will spare no effort to ensure the rights and interests of users.

threaten?

Of course not, it's just a nice reminder.

San Francisco, Palo Alto.

The time is Friday, September 3rd.

Things are basically settled.

In a reception room at the headquarters of Igret, under the arrangement of the company, Michael Novarek, the CEO of 58list, was interviewing CNN about the events that happened in the past.

"Actually, our reviewers deleted and banned the allegations of illegally selling prohibited dog breeds, illegal sex, human trafficking and other illegal posts on the 58list platform within 30 minutes, and did not cause substantial damage to users. Therefore, similar allegations are completely unreasonable. Moreover, in addition to the information filtering system that automatically identifies tens of thousands of illegal information every day, we are still recruiting manual reviewers to ensure the compliance of platform information to the greatest extent possible.”

The female reporter who interviewed Michael Novarek was named Laura Spencer, in her 20s, wearing a white ol suit, with a baby-faced appearance that was slightly green, but she was not polite to ask questions: "So, Mr. Novarek, how do you make sure that the scam that happened some time ago doesn't happen again?"

Michael Novarek said: "Unfortunately, we can't guarantee this, and I don't think any advertising platform can guarantee this. However, we have given users enough tips, and everyone is vigilant, and we can maximize it. Avoid similar incidents. Moreover, even if some undesired things happen, just like this time, we will do everything possible to help users recover their losses.”

Laura Spencer nodded slightly, but said rudely: "Several suspects in the last fraud case made allegations of illegal detention and death threats against Igrit Company, Mr. Novarek, is this true? "

"of course not."

"Then why did they voluntarily return to San Francisco from Mexico to surrender to the police, don't you think that's very unreasonable?"

"It's unreasonable, but I think everyone wants this outcome. Or, Laura, do you want them to stay away?"

"I just want to know, why did they take the initiative to surrender to the police?"

Michael Novarek was not impatient with Laura Spencer's questioning, but showed some mocking smile: "Laura, you just said it yourself, they are taking the initiative."

"..."

Outside the reception room, Simon listened to the conversation between the two through the glass window, and also raised the corners of his mouth, and said to Bezos next to him: "The next thing will be handled by you, I plan to accompany Jenny on maternity leave, and I will probably return Until November. Jeff, don’t be careless, and on the Washington side, although I have some arrangements, you should set up a fixed lobbying office as soon as possible. If Congress really insists on holding hearings and cooperate with them as much as possible, those people will not It will definitely help us, but if you don't give them face, they can haunt you for years on end."

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