My Age of Investment

  Chapter 183 Public Opinion War

  Andrew said this, and the shareholders present nodded their heads.

  Old man John was the first to respond: "Yes, we have to make those who spread the rumors pay."

  Brayer poured cold water, "It’s not easy to find the black hand behind the scenes? And their goal has been achieved. The more the incident, the happier they will be."

  Andrew looked at Breyer, squinting his eyes slightly, as if he wanted to see through the latter, "Mr. Breyer meant to let these rumors continue to spread? We will not make any counter-attack?"

  Brayer spread his hands and shook his head, "Of course I don’t mean that. What I am thinking about is how to do it better for us? Minimize the negative impact of this incident on Facebook."

   Hoffman slapped the table, glanced at the shareholders present, and said coldly: "Everyone present is all famous figures in Silicon Valley.

  We can collectively speak out in the media and support the Facebook wave! "

"no problem!"

  Peter Thiel was the first to respond to the call, and Mark Pincus also nodded in agreement immediately after him.

"OK then!"

  Old man John nodded, "I will also take my old face and visit the helms of the major media, so that when they report, they can divert their attention from other directions."

  Next, the old man John cast a gloomy look at everyone present, and said with full anger: "This is Diaoyou.com was sued by us, afraid of losing the lawsuit, and deliberately planting us!"

   "Yes, it's the dating network!"

  Old man Breyer looked right, smiled and nodded.

  Others also understood the meaning. They played down the color of Facebook’s Chinese founder and directed the topic to “the business competition between Facebook and Diaoyou.com”.

  Is it a dating network? Everyone is not sure.

  But right now, there is no more suitable target than him.

  Xia Jingxing was stunned, he didn't even interrupt, and the emergency plan was discussed by several shareholders.

  This is why he invested money in the stock market and invested in other companies.

  If he used all his money to increase his share in Facebook.

  The share of equity is certainly high, but if something happens, who will help you?

  There are also all assets concentrated on a Facebook company. It is like putting all the eggs in a basket, the basket is turned over, and the eggs are all broken.

  In this way, the outline of the plan was drawn up, and several shareholders focused on the details and rushed to perfect it.

  Then, the meeting ended quickly.

  Every shareholder left with their own tasks.

  High-profile and influential shareholders, such as John Old Man and Breyer, visit the media to use favors or money transactions. In short, they have to control a group of media who stand on their side and cheer for Facebook.

  Andrew and the legal staff of Facebook Inc. worked together to sort out the materials prosecuting Diaoyou.com. These are all "evidences" identifying Diaoyou.com.

  Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Pincus and others contacted some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were good friends to help speak out.

  Xia Jingxing and the other three continue to guard the company. They are not doing nothing. In addition to maintaining the normal operation of the company and not being affected by public opinion, they are also ready to welcome the influx of media for interviews.

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  The next day.

  Netizens' controversy over the issue of "Facebook information security" has not only not subsided, it has spread from one forum to multiple forums, and has the potential to spread to the entire network.

   As expected by Xia Jingxing, several paper media have begun to reprint the content on the forum, but the same question is: an Internet company founded by a foreigner who has the personal information of tens of millions of US citizens. Is this appropriate?

  At this moment, the media ambushed by Facebook came out.

   "Yesterday, a forum slandered Facebook CEO Darren Xia as a spy and carried out a personal attack on him...

  Coincidentally, this happened just a few days after Facebook received the largest A round of financing in the social field.

   More coincidentally, a few days ago, Facebook just sued Jonathan, the CEO of Datingyou.com...

  This makes us have to doubt the connection between these things!

  In modern business competition, in order to suppress opponents, you can do everything you can, and moral issues are completely forgotten...

  A good website should focus more on website construction, user experience, and product development. "

  ……

   Overwhelming reports from dozens of media outlets all hold one point of view: this is a means of commercial competition to suppress Facebook.

  The stories compiled by the media have noses and eyes, and they also produced a lot of evidence.

  Jonathan’s past criticisms, ridicules, and slander on Facebook’s speech records, Facebook’s receipt of filing a case against Jonathan, all the forums on the Internet with professional division of labor accounts and their abnormal and one-sided speech records...

At the same time, Stanford University President John Hennessy, LinkedIn CEO Hoffman, former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel, First Securities Chairman Liu Jinhang... Many American entrepreneurs and business celebrities spoke for Xia Jingxing and condemned immorality. Commercial competition.

  U.S. netizens were so addicted, one melon was not finished, and the other melon was handed to his mouth again.

  People sit at home, and the pot comes from the sky!

  Jonathan has not been relieved from the sorrow of the massive loss of American users of Dating.com, and then he received a court subpoena, and then a swarm of media reporters.

  These reporters are stuck at the door of Dating.com and want to interview Jonathan. Naturally, the most frequently asked questions are:

  "What is your response to Facebook suing you?"

  "Is the information of American citizens really leaked by Facebook? Do you have any evidence?"

   "Facebook has encountered a crisis of public opinion, and Diaoyou.com, as the biggest gainer, is considered by the outside world to be yours. What do you think of this?"

  ……

  Jonathan was going crazy by these reporters, and all sorts of pits for him to jump.

  He felt that he couldn’t wash himself even after jumping into the Mississippi River!

   was blocked by the reporter at the door of the company, and Diaoyou.com was unable to work normally, so he answered a few questions from the reporter with emotion.

   "Facebook has no evidence to prove that this matter was done by Dating. We are now busy improving the user experience of the website..."

   "What? Did I admit it? When did I admit it?"

  "This is completely a **** slander us, this is slander, wait, we are preparing to file a counterclaim..."

  ……

  The reporter was very insidious, so he used words to stimulate Jonathan and got the answer he wanted.

  Then, the reporters turned around and went to Facebook again, continuing to pick things up.

  Xia Jingxing has long been waiting.

  After the reporters arrived, they invited them into the conference room and held a small press conference.

  Reporter: "Jonathan scolded you as a son of a bitch, and said that Facebook was slandering them. There is no conclusive evidence. Dingyou.com is going to counter suing Facebook."

  Xia Jingxing: "He is jealous that I am younger than him, and that the development of Facebook is better than dating. It doesn't matter if he doesn't admit it. See you in court."

  Reporter: "Someone from the outside said you are a spy, what's your response?"

  Xia Jingxing: "Is there a spy with such a high profile? A press conference is also held."

  Reporter: “For the citizens’ information security that the outside world is worried about, what measures does Facebook do to protect it?”

  Xia Jingxing: "Our company has always paid attention to the protection of user information. The company is registered in the United States, the servers are all located in the United States, and there are many Americans in shareholders and employees."

  Reporter: "If the federal government wants to investigate Facebook, will you cooperate?"

  Xia Jingxing: "The United States is a country under the rule of law, and I respect the law!"

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  (End of this chapter)