Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com August 31 news, CTOnews.com learned from the "Ministry of Public Security Network Security Bureau" official account, Xi'an police smashed more than 100 people of the "network water army" gang.

In 2023, the Internet police in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province found that a number of short video platform accounts posted messages in the name of news or legal practitioners, claiming that the problem could be solved through online self-media exposure.

These accounts frequently use a variety of socially sensitive cases to concoct topics, plan copywriting, and produce videos, seriously disturbing network order and social stability. After preliminary verification, this is a criminal gang of more than 100 "network water army" headed by Guo and Liu.

Dressed in the cloak of legal advice and cultural media, the gang released gimmicks and induced hype on various short video network platforms, publicly selling services such as paid likes, followers, views, fans and so on.

At the same time, the gang also employs "hand brushing" to simulate real users for batch operations through illegal scripting programs, which can push the number of "views" of short videos to the order of millions in a short time.

According to the investigation of Tuyuan Pexels, the relationships between the nine companies involved in the case are inextricably linked, all developed by a media company organized by Guo and Liu.

After realizing that the relevant acts were suspected of breaking the law, the two dispersed the original shareholders and employees, registered nine new companies in the same period, and chose non-backbone members as legal persons, while the real boss stayed behind the scenes to control the operation of the company. in order to evade the blow.

The police have identified that the main responsible persons of the nine companies involved are Guo mou, Liu mou, du mou, Tao mou, Zhi mou, Li mou, and at the same time, they have identified the gangs of Bai Mou in Heze, Shandong Province, Xie Mou, and Tan Mou in Loudi, Hunan Province, and also used illegal procedures to drain and brush the above-mentioned network water army groups.

As of July 17, the Xi'an police had taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law, detained 12 people and stopped payment of more than 218 million yuan. At present, the relevant cases are under further investigation.

The Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security reminded: the "Internet Water Army" is engaged in illegal activities such as fabricating false information, slandering attacks, illegal promotion, and paid deletion of posts, endangering the Internet ecology and disturbing the normal market order, which is illegal, and must not defy the law.

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