As another subsidiary of the Westeros system that has risen rapidly from obscurity, Nokia's stock price surged on its first day of listing, and it once again became the subject of heated discussion in mainstream media around the world.
After the weekend, a Nokia-led forward-looking article in the latest issue of "Forbes" in North America 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.
A few years ago, the position of the richest man in the United States and even the world might have been in doubt. Japanese real estate tycoons, the Walton family, etc. were all very strong competitors.
There is almost no suspense about the top spot on the current rich list.
The only thing everyone is curious about is probably how much Simon Westeros' net worth has increased this year.
The lawsuits and media clamor caused by the 58list website fraud case have not eased due to the listing of Nokia and the upcoming release of the "Forbes" rich list, but have become more and more noisy.
After the San Francisco Chronicle followed up on the fraud case, other print media responded one after another, and various questions about 58list were raised from all over the United States.
On August 23, a Chicago city councilman publicly accused Eaglet in the local Chicago Sun-Times of condoning irresponsible citizens by posting on the 58list website that pit bulls are strictly prohibited in the Chicago area.
The Houston Chronicle in Texas published screenshot evidence claiming to have discovered illegal prostitution information on the 58list website.
A pair of young parents in Miami want to sell their three-month-old daughter on the website 58list.
A user in Washington discovered his stolen car on the New York City board.
All kinds of things.
At the same time, other cases similar to the San Francisco employment fraud case also appeared in the newspapers.
After initially silently waiting and watching, taking advantage of the opportunity of this fraud case, the traditional paper media almost unanimously launched their efforts, obviously intending to nip the 58list website in the cradle, which was less than a month old.
The public opinion continued until later. In an interview with the Washington Post, a Republican senator in the U.S. Congress said that he would submit a hearing to Congress on whether the 58list website owned by Ygrit Company is suspected of condoning criminal behavior and endangering public safety to decide whether to Initiate further investigation and litigation.
The rebound of traditional print media was completely expected.
According to user data released by major operators in July and August, in the first half of 1993 as of June 30, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States alone has reached 37.69 million, covering more than 60 million Internet users. It is estimated that in 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 Internet users.
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 between household appliances such as televisions and telephones, which have a coverage rate of more than 90%, one thing that cannot be ignored is that these 30% of covered users are definitely the group of people with the strongest spending power in the United States.
Likewise, these people are also the best customers of the American print media industry.
Even though many people are still unwilling to admit it, with the rapid popularity of the Internet, the decline of the traditional paper media industry has become increasingly obvious.
Users only need to spend tens of dollars per month to enjoy richer and more timely news information, emails, social networks, online games and other services, without the need to subscribe to traditional newspapers.
In the original time and space, in June 1993, the New York Times Group acquired another large newspaper on the East Coast, the Boston Post, for a huge sum of US$1.1 billion.
Probably feeling the decline of the paper media industry, although this transaction has also occurred, 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 certain opportunities.
The launch of the 58list website and the occurrence of the San Francisco fraud case finally gave the traditional print media an excuse to attack Ygritte.
After all, just over half a month after its launch, the millions of classified ad messages on the 58list website have already caused hundreds of millions of dollars in potential losses to the classified ad business of traditional paper media. If free classified information websites on the Internet platform become popular from now on, the US$20 billion in annual advertising revenue of traditional print media will be wiped out.
If the huge losses of 20 billion US dollars were not scattered very scattered among thousands of newspapers in the United States and involved such a huge industrial income, even starting a war would be enough, let alone murder and arson.
It’s not like the American paper media groups have never incited wars.
Simon took this public opinion crisis very seriously 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 formidable 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 finally shut down due to pressure, Ygrit Company actually did not suffer much loss.
The fire has been lit. Even if 58list is shut down, more classified information websites will inevitably appear.
Without the strong support of Yigret, those classified information websites with mixed quality will only bring more potential threats to users, and private investigation teams cannot be used to protect user rights.
It only took the team led by Martin Dinham three days to identify the suspected target. However, problems arose during the tracing phase.
Probably feeling that things were getting serious, 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 confirm the victim and issue a wanted warrant through official channels. However, these days, it is obvious that some people do not want this fraud case to be detected. The San Francisco police should have behaved themselves after the case received widespread media attention. Obviously very lazy.
Even the two victims who had agreed to cooperate with the investigation by Ygritte's company team suddenly stopped contacting Ygritte, with only the official words of the lawyer remaining each time.
It is conceivable that once a wanted warrant is issued, the suspect will only flee to a more hidden place. With the attitude shown by the San Francisco police, it will be even more difficult to catch the person.
Simon was determined to use this incident to establish his authority and warn potential criminals who wanted to commit crimes on the Ygrit platform.
Realizing the official inaction, Simon directly mobilized half of his intelligence team to assemble in San Francisco. At the same time, he also quietly released the three identified suspects in the underground world in the western states and even the border area between Mexico and the United States. USD reward.
For gangsters all over North America who are far better informed than the authorities, $100,000 per head is definitely not a small amount.
Hiring a professional killer doesn't necessarily require that much money.
As a result, less than a week after the reward order spread, news quickly spread that someone asked Martin Dinham, the person in charge of the matter, to bring cash and rush to Tijuana, Mexico, which borders southern California, to pick him up.
Sure enough, he escaped to Mexico.
If the authorities issue a wanted order, it would be wishful thinking to arrest them unless those people return to the United States.
Moreover, instead of three people posting the bounty, there were five in total.
The local gangs in Tijuana were very generous. Of course they didn't know why these people were offered bounties. However, since there were only three people with bounties on their heads, they only collected US$300,000. The other two heads were given away for free, and they expressed their sincere hope. There is another opportunity to 'collaborate'.
After all, there are quite a few people who flee from the United States to Mexico every year for various reasons.
If it's all that valuable, it's a big deal.
The gang leader who contacted Martin Dinham also said that he could deal with the people directly in Mexico, which would be much less risky than bringing them back to North America. With just a little extra money, several people could disappear completely. At that time, some of the unlucky guys who were tied up like goods and placed beside them were so frightened that they peed their pants.
Immediately, amidst the hustle and bustle of public opinion, five fraudsters suddenly appeared and took the initiative to walk into the local police station in San Francisco and surrender.
With the victim's confession and various other evidences, the criminal appeared in front of them. Even if they no longer wanted to solve the case, the officials could not continue to work together, so the five-person fraud gang was quickly and formally arrested.
However, getting here is just the beginning.
When all the media had not yet reacted to the accusations against Ygritte, another news broke. After interrogation, it was found that this fraud gang was a long-standing habitual criminal. Before committing fraud through the 58list website, it also relied on traditional newspapers. Classified information ads have carried out many scams, but they have never been caught.
Until I fell into this 'novel' online scam.
Because the incident was such a big deal, photos of the five suspects were quietly circulated on the Internet, as if to confirm the confessions of the five suspects. Victims in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and other places came forward one after another claiming to have encountered the five suspects. scams, most of which are deceived through classified information advertisements in traditional paper media.
It immediately became lively.
Yigrit's crisis management team for this incident has been discussing one thing during this time. The scam on 58list and similar cases that occurred through traditional paper media are very common. The Yigrit portal also listed a series of cases that are more severe than this one. More serious fraud cases.
Naturally, the traditional print media, which only criticized 58list one-sidedly, chose to ignore it.
Everyone is talking about the matter, don't talk about anything else.
Now, okay, let’s get down to business.
The criminal gang responsible for this incident has carried out employment scams across North America through traditional paper media. In just a few days, it has been confirmed that 7 cases have been filed by the police. For so many criminal incidents, the relevant newspapers did not give the victims a clue. He said that the police had not solved any relevant cases.
Now, they have just started committing crimes on 58list, and the entire gang was captured in less than half a month.
So, which one is more reliable, traditional paper media or online platforms? Which one actually condones crime? Which one can better protect the interests of users
People's eyes are sharp.
During this period, the Igret Portal has been very candid in introducing various 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 raised in newspapers. Therefore, although there is almost a one-sided crusade against 58list in traditional paper media, this free classified information service platform has not been affected much and 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, the public opinion situation is even more one-sided in favor of the Ygritte family.
After all, although traditional paper media still have a strong ability to spread public opinion, the same is true for the Yigrit portal, which almost monopolizes access to the Internet.
There are more than 60 million Internet users in North America, and the average daily number of users using the Yigrit Portal has reached 20 million. Such an information dissemination platform covering the entire United States has far greater influence than any newspaper in the federal government.
When things have developed to this extent, it is obviously the right choice to give up all activities. However, some people are obviously still unwilling to do so.
So another inside story came out.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, five members of the fraud gang publicly stated that they had been illegally detained and threatened with death by Ygritte Company, and had to surrender to the police in order to save their lives. The five suspects later announced that they would sue Eaglet for serious violations of civil rights.
The media suddenly became lively again.
Immediately afterwards, tabloids exposed more detailed inside stories. In order to catch this fraud gang, Eagleret Company actually issued a reward to the entire United States and even the underground world of Mexico. Moreover, Eagleret Company seemed to have also cooperated with Mexico. The gang is involved.
The media clearly wanted to discredit Ygritte and even the entire Westeros system by exposing these important materials. However, things obviously did not follow the development of some people's minds.
The melon-eaters only felt that the excitement was getting bigger and bigger.
Westerners actually don’t have very clear black-and-white values. This can be seen from the fact that the bad guys are often whitewashed in many Hollywood blockbusters.
In order to catch a group of fraudsters, Eaglet Company did not hesitate to issue a reward throughout North America, and even chased them across the country to Mexico to kidnap them back. This is completely a super Robin Hood-style chivalrous behavior.
As for illegal detention and death threats
You are the villains.
Isn’t this how villains should be treated
Of course, Igret firmly denies the media revelations and the accusations of fraud gangs.
Illegal detention does not exist.
Death threats
If you have the ability, would you ask the Mexican gang to come forward to testify against you
Of course, if someone continues to use the Yigrit network platform to commit crimes, Yigrit will protect the rights of users at all costs.
threaten
Of course not, this is just a kind reminder.
San Francisco, Palo Alto.
The time is Friday, September 3rd.
Things are basically settled.
In a reception room at the headquarters of Yigrit, under the arrangement of the company, Michael Novarek, the CEO of 58list, was being interviewed by CNN about the events that occurred in the past period.
“Actually, our reviewers deleted and banned all the illegal posts on the 58list platform within 30 minutes regarding the illegal sales of prohibited dog breeds, illegal prostitution, and human trafficking from various parts of the federal government. This did not cause any substantial harm to the users. Damage, so similar accusations are completely unreasonable. Moreover, in addition to the information filtering system that automatically screens tens of thousands of illegal information every day, we are also continuing to recruit manual reviewers to ensure the compliance of platform information to the greatest extent."
The female reporter who interviewed Michael Novarek was named Laura Spencer. She looked in her 20s and was wearing a white OL suit. Her baby-faced appearance was slightly green, but she was not polite at all when asking questions: "So, Mr. Novarek, how do you ensure that the fraud that just happened some time ago will not happen again?”
Michael Novarek said: "Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this. I don't think any advertising platform can ensure this. However, we have given users enough tips. If you are more vigilant, you can maximize your chances of success." Avoid similar incidents from happening. Moreover, even if something that no one wants happens, just like this time, we will do everything we can to help users recover their losses."
Laura Spencer nodded slightly, but said rudely: "Several suspects in the last fraud case made accusations of illegal detention and death threats against Ygrit 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 this is very unreasonable?"
"It's really unreasonable, but I think everyone wants to see this result. Or, Laura, do you want them to remain unpunished?"
"I just want to know why they surrendered to the police?"
Michael Novarek was not impatient with Laura Spencer's questioning. Instead, he showed a teasing smile: "Laura, you just said it yourself, they took the initiative."
“…”
Outside the living room, Simon listened to the conversation between the two through the glass window. He also raised the corner of his mouth and said to Bezos next to him: "I will leave the rest of the matter to you. I plan to accompany Jenny on maternity leave. I will probably come back." Until November. Jeff, don’t be careless. In addition, in Washington, although I have made some arrangements, you should set up a fixed lobbying office as soon as possible. If Congress really insists on holding hearings, cooperate with them as much as possible, and those people will not It will definitely help us, but if you don’t give them face, they can pester you for several years.”