China’s courts are grappling with how to punish the growing business of artificially inflating views, likes, comments and other engagement to make merchants and products appear more popular than they are.
A February ruling by Yangjiang Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong province upheld a more than five-year prison sentence for an intermediary who arranged more than 2.47 million yuan ($368,000) of fake traffic for Douyin users and merchants.
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