Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 421 The power of public opinion

If it is just one, they will not believe it, thinking that it may be some internet clown trying to take advantage of the popularity and fabricate fake information to attract traffic;
If there are ten people, they may be skeptical and think that things should be viewed dialectically and not just one-sidedly.
But now there are nearly a hundred videos released, with different time points, different accounts, and different analyses. The cost of falsification is too high. Now they can’t help but watch it.
These videos spread without the help of the navy on the other side, and public opinion naturally became one-sided. After all, both the neutral and spectator factions and the supporters on the other side were curious about the rapid increase in votes that night.

Curiosity is the most powerful driving force for people to seek the truth. Now that the topic of the Spring Festival Gala has faded, everyone has something new to talk about.
Moreover, this may involve the suspicion of vote-rigging by several BAT companies, which is a problem related to the image of several companies and even the image of the people. People's enthusiasm for watching melons is even higher.
"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway!"

“No wonder WeChat lost. Once this trick was used, even if 14 billion people in the country joined together to attack WeChat, they probably couldn’t win!”

"I declare that WeChat is the winner of the Spring Internet War~"

"Whoever benefits is the most suspicious. Xunyi and Baidu must have been secretly colluding, and Taobao is probably also involved!"

"Oh, Baidu, isn't that a basic operation? There are more and more ads on search results pages now. The first three results are all ads, and the results you want are often only available on the second page."

"Absolute monopoly brings absolute corruption. This factory is probably rotten to the core. It's just that they haven't cracked down on corruption, otherwise they would have caught a large number of people and no one would have been able to escape~"

Chen Mo achieved the desired effect, but the process was quite tortuous. First, the public opinion channels were attacked by Baidu, some portal sites and Weibo.

No matter how many videos and related comments were sent, they disappeared and fell into the sea. They were all killed without mercy in the media under Baidu or Tencent.

The remaining third-party media platforms such as NetEase, Sohu, Sina and their Weibo have become the battlegrounds for public opinion between the two sides.

Even if Bi'an wanted to spend money later, it would lose the two strongholds of NetEase and Sohu.

Sina and Sina Weibo are the most important battlefields for the game between the two sides. Although Alibaba is only a big e-commerce company, as one of the shareholders of Weibo, it still has a certain say.

Unfortunately, Weibo’s shareholders include not only Alibaba, but also Bi’an.

Last year, both of them wanted to acquire Weibo, but Cao Guowei was trying to please both sides and was unwilling to give up power, which led to repeated stalemates in the negotiations about acquiring Weibo until now.

After all, Weibo is not owned by Alibaba yet. Chen Mo personally communicated with Cao Guowei of Sina and only then did they relax some restrictions.

Some things cannot be suppressed, such as the erection of young people in the morning, which needs to be effectively relieved. Some people just can't figure out what can be done quickly by going to the toilet and peeing. This leads to the continuous fighting on those platforms, with one side lighting the fire and the other side putting it out, which is getting more and more intense.
This is also the main battlefield where Chen Tong leads the navy to fight, the main attack, while the secondary battlefield is the main defense of the media platforms related to its cooperation, such as WeChat public accounts, Toutiao, Bi'an.com, and Zhihu.
The event was suspected of fraudulent voting, the video was suspected of fraud, the win was dishonorable, and the other side could not afford to lose. All kinds of comments from both sides were rampant.
One against three, not only did the other side fight back and forth, but also had the upper hand.

Because the other side had a legitimate reason, occupied the moral high ground, and stood with the masses, it led these "righteous men" into the charge.

This is the value of the navy in Chen Tong's hands. This is also due to this team. It has been tempered by war and has continued to grow since its construction. Together with Zhang Changfa's full-army attack team, they are two powerful weapons in the hands of Chen Mo or the other side.

Among these social media platforms, Zhihu, which was previously invested by Shunwei Capital, made a big splash this time, which made Chen Mo take notice.

Many high-quality users' answers above on whether this Spring Internet War was suspected of fraud were sharp and pointed, and each move was aimed at choking the other party's throat.

There is even a folk expert who reversed the change in the number of votes in each period of time to deduce the other party's vote-rigging algorithm. He wrote down the implementation process in his answer in a very detailed manner. He even provided a more complete and secretive vote-rigging process based on the reversed version, focusing on a forehand and backhand education.

This made Chen Mo secretly sigh that there are so many talented people among the thousands of netizens in China, and there are countless hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Seeing this, he took the opportunity to release the other side's technical expert team to deduce different ways of implementing the other party's vote-rigging and promoted this question and answer.

Then, under the question titled "How to prove that the change in votes on the night of the Spring Internet War was caused by artificial vote manipulation, is there any evidence?", many extremely professional inference answers appeared, as if a set of questions had several different solutions, and they were all proven to be achievable, and even made it to the Zhihu hot list.

There are many similar cases. Zhihu has also become the arsenal of the navy on the other side, providing it with a steady supply of ammunition, so that it can output firepower unscrupulously and to its heart's content.

This also made Chen Mo realize the importance of Zhihu. Unlike platforms such as Toutiao and official accounts, Zhihu was positioned as a high-quality knowledge question-and-answer platform when it was first established. Professionals from all walks of life solve various problems of users with serious and professional answers.

This is what Baidu knows its ideal appearance.

Zhihu was still pretty good in its early stages of development, but as it grew larger, it went astray and became a gathering place for the most righteous.
He called Zhou Shouzi and told him to come back after the new year and take over Zhihu at all costs.

After all, Weibo is disrupted by Alibaba, so the chances of Bi'an acquiring Weibo are slim. Even if it can, the price will be too high, which will not be worth it.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of subsequent users of Little Blue Book will be comparable to that of Little Red Book, and it can become an important voice channel for the other side in the future.

Zhihu uses pictures and texts, and with long videos on Station A and short videos on Tik Tok, it will not be constrained like it is now, and some will not be able to display their talents.
Each platform has different user positioning and audience, and the answers to the same question are also different.

For example, when you encounter the problem of "What should I do if the toilet is clogged?"

If you go to Zhihu, some people will answer the tips for unclogging toilets, some will talk about the principles of unclogging toilets, some will analyze the causes of this phenomenon, and some will even explain how much it costs to unclog a toilet and how to contact them.
Then someone will reply, "Why, the fruits of your labor are fruits, but the fruits of the laboring people are not fruits?" Then the argument spreads to society, politics, and even philosophy.
If you go to Bilibili, you will most likely see a lot of irrelevant videos of people unclogging toilets, mostly in the ghost section;
As for the forum, there might be a guy who says, "You can't even unclog a toilet, reopen it." Then your question will be transferred to the Sun forum, and a new thread will appear: "How do you comment on an adult who can't even unclog a toilet?"

Only Xiaohongshu, with pictures and text, tries to teach you step by step, like teaching a fool, where to buy a toilet plunger and how to poke hard to maximize the effect, but there is no explanation of the principle, and people who search for this question don't care.
Just one day later, on the fourth day of the New Year, the fierce battle was in full swing.

The bloody atmosphere generated by this war of public opinion attracted a shark hidden in the deep sea, with a number printed on its body: 360.

Is 360 a rogue? It depends on one's own opinion. Some people say that 360 is full of pop-up ads and bundled installations, showing its rogue nature. Others say that the emergence of 360 has made all viruses disappear, and the world is free of viruses.

But is Red-robed Master Zhou an Internet fighter? There is no controversy about this. This is a recognized label for the Red-robed Master in the industry. His growth history is a history of unyielding struggle against heaven and earth. He always PKs with superiors and only fights with the strong.

A few years ago, the 3Q war caused a lot of controversy and attracted official intervention, with both sides receiving 50 lashes each.

He then entered the mobile phone field and provoked Lei Jun on Weibo, which pushed the honest man so far that the two sides decided to fight. Afterwards, he was caught by people sent by Lei Chen who were scouting the scene, and he instantly turned into an elementary school student and was taught a lesson by the two of them.

In the middle of last year, a protracted "3B War" was launched, which made Li Yanhong furious but he could do nothing about it, and the whole place was in a mess in the end.

Although 360's results in each battle were not very ideal, it was often the one being beaten.

360 lost but did not lose.

In every PK match, Zhou Hongyi performs beyond his level, and after each battle, 360's popularity and one of its businesses will see substantial development.

Just like after the 3Q war, 360 won the reputation of "innovator" and "protecting the privacy rights of netizens", and Zhou Hongyi also became a representative of many entrepreneurs who are not afraid of power and fight the strong with the weak.

3, which learned from the 360Q war, launched an attack on Baidu's search business. This was also premeditated. In the end, neither side achieved the desired result.

Li Yanhong's goal was to use Baidu's absolute technological barriers that had led the company for a decade to launch a war of annihilation against 360, but Zhou Hongyi resolved this by using various tricks.

360's launch of search to replace Baidu was wishful thinking. In the end, the two sides called a truce, but the grudge had already been sown.

Now that he has such a good opportunity, how could Zhou Hongyi miss it? He is currently at a shooting range in the United States, with all kinds of weapons at his fingertips, ready to fire. 360 also rushed in and fired at Baidu.

Bi'an and 360 are not good friends. Bi'an's Kunlun Mirror enterprise-level protection system is still in competition with 360 Enterprise Guard in the market.

First, the Kunlun mirror has not yet entered the civilian field, and second, the commercial market is too large and 360 cannot take it all by itself.

360 is willing to help Baidu, which is the lesser of two evils. It can get a piece of meat from Baidu. A small step back for Baidu in the domestic search market is a big step forward for 360 Search.

After 360's demise, the topic is no longer limited to vote fraud, but has expanded to negative news such as paid ranking, secret operations, selling dog meat under the guise of sheep, and leaking user privacy, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Zhou Hongyi and Chen Mo first collaborated when WeChat was just starting out. Later, Zhou had a fight with Lei Jun, and Chen Mo had a real relationship offline. Unexpectedly, now both parties are collaborating again tacitly because of WeChat. It has to be said that this is a case of fate.

After returning to Beijing and completing his post-New Year work arrangements at Baidu, Robin Li took his family to the United States for vacation. After this event, Baidu may have become the biggest winner. The three companies were exposed on Baidu Tieba. With Baidu's own voting linkage tasks, it made a lot of money, and the business data also showed obvious growth during this period.

Unfortunately, the originally happy holiday atmosphere was broken by a phone call.

As soon as the plane landed, Li Yanhong received a call. There were some public opinions in the country that were unfavorable to Baidu. At first, he did not pay much attention to it and was still spending time with his family. However, in just one day, the situation changed dramatically. He did not expect that the news that was unfavorable to Baidu would ferment so quickly. He immediately realized that someone was behind it.

Afterwards, they called for support from friendly forces in the group, but who would have thought that the combined strength of the three parties could only barely resist the opponent's offensive.

When he saw 360's sneaky figure, Li Yanhong became furious. He returned to China alone and asked the public relations department to come up with a charter to eliminate the current public opinion.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Baidu published a rumor-refuting statement on the Spring Festival Internet Event Forum, denying the suspected fraud of the event and claiming that it would reserve the right to pursue legal responsibility against those rumor-mongers.

There are even netizens who are very resourceful and good at reading comprehension and provide a Chinese-Chinese translation:
"I have no problem. Those videos are all synthetic. There is a price to pay for spreading rumors. You must be able to distinguish right from wrong."

Today’s netizens are not as easily fooled as before. When they see a rumor debunked, they treat it as if they have seen some sensitive words. In their eyes, any form of rumor debunking has become a confession.

Instead of putting out the fire, Baidu's statement added fuel to the fire.

To infer the cause from the result, if we want to break the impasse, we have to cut off the information channel on the other side from the very beginning, so that the other side can only act as a temple in a snail shell and only speak in our own small territory.

BAT formed a joint force and formed an information cocoon in a short period of time through public opinion, making the majority of netizens believe that Chen Mo was unwilling to accept the failure of WeChat and was so angry that he did not hesitate to hire a group of Internet users.

They promoted Chen Mo by making a fake synthesized video to slander BAT, and then made some more fuss about the 10 billion bet, creating Chen Mo's image as a person who can't afford to play and cheat, and who can't afford to lose, and combined with his young age, destroyed his commercial image.

In fact, Baidu also did the same thing, but its efforts were not as decisive and its response was not as quick. The thing was right, but it was too late.

In this situation, the Bi'an Tianji think tank had previously thought about the measures that the other party might take, but did not come up with a corresponding plan because there was no need!
It doesn’t matter whether Chunwang Interactive has faked votes or not. When public opinion takes the lead, the opinion they represent is often the “truth” of the matter.

And now with the powerful assistance of 360, the results are even better than expected.

Now the public opinion supporting Bi'an has an absolute upper hand, with at least 7% of people choosing to support Bi'an and WeChat.

At this time, the battle report from the other side of WeChat finally arrived.

This battle report became the final blow that broke the camel's back.
(End of this chapter)