China kicks top influencer off social media for fabricating viral story of boy’s lost homework
China kicks top influencer off social media for fabricating viral story of boy’s lost homework
Thurman Maoyibe claimed a waiter in Paris had given her workbooks left by a Chinese schoolboy and set out on a mission to return them
I have such mixed feelings- on one hand having the gov shut you down over bullshit is insanely dystopian. On the other, I can’t stand click bait scripted internet videos…
insanely dystopian
In a way...
But compare that to countries where no one can hold you accountable for being an asshole. You end up with people trying to out asshole each other, in my state it's not abnormal to hear about road rage leading to shootings in traffic.
But when you look back at the vast majority of human history, this was the type of shit most enforced:
Don't be a lying asshole and get the whole tribe worked up because you wanted attention.
Now, if this happened because she said a government official was an asshole, or that society could be better...
That would be insanely dystopian
Imagine if this was the response whether videos of people claiming 40 beheaded babies would have come into existence
Having an inherent risk attached to whenever you create bullshit seems perfectly fine to me. It's not like any social media personality is accidentally doing what they are doing.
Actually having the government shut these leeches up is good and cool
No, people lying on social media to children to make a living is dystopian. Stop it, get some help.
If we did that to western influencers, there'd be no western influencers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Chinese authorities have shut down the social media accounts of a top influencer for fabricating the viral story of a boy’s missing homework in Paris.
Sina Weibo, WeChat and Douyin accounts of Thurman Maoyibei, 29, were removed after a police investigation found that she had fabricated the story.
Ms Xu posted a video on 16 February claiming that a waiter at a coffee shop in Paris handed her two holiday workbooks that belonged to a student named Quin Lang.
Ms Xu said she made up the story due to her "light legal consciousness" and acknowledged that her actions "disrupted the internet order and resulted in massive negative influence".
They discovered that Ms Xu and an accomplice had purchased the books with the intention of creating the viral video.
China’s Ministry of Public Security cited Ms Xu’s case as an example of its crackdown on online rumours.
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