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Chinese authorities have shut down 6,600 websites nationwide for “illegal” public relations campaigns against the business rivals of their clients.
Most of these websites involved illegal groups which specialised in deleting online news stories and posts content with negative influences or hiring other netizens to spread certain kinds of information or opinions on the internet, according to Ministry of Information Technology.
In a special campaign launched in April, industry and commerce departments across the country cracked 150 cases on illegal online PR deals and confiscated more than 1.13 million yuan ($1.76 lakh), with focus on online advertisements, forums and BBS.
Official figures show that more than 790,000 online posts and articles, as well as 1.65 million cached pages that contained illegal online PR content, had been deleted during the campaign as of the end of June, Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying.
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