Glory sued a digital blogger for infringement of the right to reputation: 86698 yuan was awarded

Sanyan Finance news on February 9, today, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court released the results of the judgment of glory company suing a certain evaluation blogger for infringement of the right to reputation, and the Guangzhou Internet Court first-instance judgment evaluation blogger issued an apology statement to Glory and compensated 86698 yuan.

From February to May 2021, digital blogger Xiao Jiang (pseudonym) posted reviews on weibo on a number of digital products such as honor V40, Play5t, Play20 and x7 tablets.

Honor Company believes that Xiaojiang has a large network influence in the digital circle, and its continuous publication of defamatory and defamatory Glory product content has seriously infringed on Glory's right to reputation, so it sued the court, demanding that Xiaojiang immediately delete the infringing content, apologize and compensate for economic losses of 1 million yuan and reasonable expenses for rights protection of 76698 yuan.

The court held that in this case, Xiao Jiang was a Weibo plus V user with more than 100,000 fans, an active weibo user and certified as a "digital blogger". The digital product information it posts on Weibo will attract the attention of fans or other internet users. Therefore, Xiaojiang should bear a higher duty of care than ordinary Internet users when making remarks. The content cited or reproduced information in the relevant category should not only have a source, but also a more authoritative source.

However, the relevant content involved in the case released by Xiaojiang did not indicate the source of the reprinted information, nor did it indicate the source of the content with the word "forward", and some of the remarks were insulting. When Xiao Jiang published the reprinted Weibo, there was malicious splicing other user comments and selectively quoting derogatory remarks in the reprinted articles.

In addition, there is no objective basis for the original Weibo content involved in the case, and Xiaojiang, as a digital blogger, did not publish his Weibo remarks about digital products through his own evaluation or experience of the products, nor was it properly verified.

Although Glory Company should respect and tolerate the reasonable criticism and opinions of consumers or the public, the Weibo remarks involved in the case published by Xiao Jiang obviously exceeded the scope of reasonable evaluation, subjectively there was a fault in devaluing the reputation of Glory Company, and objectively committed infringement, which inevitably caused the social evaluation of Glory Company to decrease, so the court found that Xiao Jiang infringed on Glory Company's right to reputation.

In the end, the Guangzhou Internet Court ruled in the first instance that Xiaojiang issued an apology statement at the top of the home page of his Weibo account, apologizing to Glory Company, eliminating the influence and restoring its reputation for Glory Company; Xiao Jiang compensated Glory Company for economic losses of 60,000 yuan and reasonable expenses of 26,698 yuan, a total of 86,698 yuan; rejected Other litigation claims of Glory Company.