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Shanghai Hongkou released news on September 6 that since April this year, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Internet Information Office has promoted the "Qinglang Pujiang e-Enterprise Peer" special campaign to optimize the business network environment, actively supporting enterprises in dealing with infringing information and online accounts. In the post, officials also cited several disposed of accounts, one of which was about Yan Chuang, a well-known car critic. Officials pointed out that the municipal party committee's network information office has coordinated a time-limited ban on Yan Chuang's Weibo account for posting negative and false information about an automobile company.

According to the auto industry's focus on Weibo platform, Yan Chuang's Weibo has not been updated for nearly 2 months, and the last dynamic update is July 11.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of last month, there were media reports that Tesla applied for compulsory enforcement because Yan Chuang refused to fulfill his obligation to apologize. At the same time, the people's court announcement network also released a detailed case about Tesla and Yan Chuang. According to the content released by the people's court announcement network, on April 25, 2021, "Yan Chuang" retweeted the Weibo of Weibo user "Corals in fresh Water", saying, "Tesla finally has a public relations launch." learned the Chinese Internet game ten years ago, hire a water army and other related remarks. Tesla sued Yan Chuang for infringing the right of reputation for such remarks. The post was forwarded as of April 28, 2021, with 91 retweets, 562 comments and 2115 likes.

It should be noted here that Weibo user "Coral in fresh Water" was the heroine of the rights incident at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show. At that time, a woman wearing Tesla's "brake failure" stood on the roof of Tesla's car to safeguard her rights. This incident also pushed Tesla to the pinnacle of public opinion. At that time, Tesla's share price was also greatly affected. Prior to this, an evaluation report issued by a judicial evaluation agency showed that the "Shanghai Auto Show incident" caused Tesla to lose more than 170 million yuan in orders and tens of millions of yuan in goodwill.

Returning to the reputation infringement case of Yan Chuang and Tesla, the court held that Yan Chuang made these remarks on the basis of his own conjecture and did not provide relevant evidence. These remarks have a certain impact on Tesla's social evaluation and reduce the credibility of Tesla's enterprises. The court held that Yan Chuang's above remarks constituted an infringement on the plaintiff's right of reputation. Judgment Yan Chuang shall, within seven days from the effective date of this judgment, issue a written letter of apology to the plaintiff Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. If the defendant Yan Chuang fails to perform the above contents within the time limit, the court will publish the main contents of this judgment in a nationally distributed newspaper based on the application of the plaintiff Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and the publication fee will be borne by the defendant Yan Chuang.

In addition, the dispute between Yan Chuang and Tesla is not just the one mentioned above. Earlier, Yan Chuang also released some videos of comments about Tesla's actual brake failure caused by the brake failure and rights protection incident at the Shanghai Auto Show. Tesla said that because the relevant case was still under trial, Yan Chuang would be prosecuted in a separate case in due course. At the same time, it is pointed out that Tesla has not given up the right to be held accountable for the remarks. At present, Yan Chuang's Weibo account has not been updated, but his Douyin and Wechat official account are still being updated in the near future.

Relevant data show that Yan Chuang is not only a senior car critic in the automotive industry, but also a driver and has participated in many car races. He had previously worked in Auto House, then resigned to set up his own company and founded Yan Chuang's talk about cars. On September 26, 2017, Auto House announced that it would invest 20 million yuan to sign a contract with Yan Chuang, and launched a three-month omni-directional "explosion plan" to optimize and upgrade Yan Chuang's personal brand and column "Yan Chuang said car". Upgrade from the body, shape, broadcasting, content and other aspects, to build Yan Chuang into one of the most authoritative car critics in the automobile industry.

However, on the third day after Yan Chuang signed the contract with Auto House, Yan Chuang caused an accident with a cameraman of the same company in the new issue of Yan Chuang talking about cars. Subsequently, Yan Chuang was detained on suspicion of causing death by negligence to cooperate with the investigation. On February 2, 2018, Yan Chuang posted that the incident had come to a complete end, and the families of the deceased Maomao finally chose to forgive and not sue.

As of press time, the number of Weibo followers of "Yan Chuang" reached 4.5 million and the number of recomments and likes reached 4.287 million.

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