IT Home April 28 news, according to Red Star News reported that yesterday netizens "five thousand years of rabbits" released a message, saying that they were sued by Tesla, and their personal introduction page said that they were a "vehicle quality engineer".
IT Home learned that after the "Tesla female car owner rights protection incident" was fermented by public opinion in April last year, the netizen posted a report entitled "Tesla rights protection girl did not lie!" Using brake data to restore the horror before the accident for five seconds" article, which is still on its home page. The netizen said that during the period, he quarreled with other Tesla fans on today's headlines, and some of the words involving Tesla in the process were too extreme.
The netizen said that after Tesla's legal counsel sent him a private message nearly a year ago, he had deleted the relevant remarks and believed that his behavior was not infringing. In May 2021, Tesla sued him and Today's Headlines to the Beijing Internet Court for a claim of 500,000 yuan on the grounds of a dispute over the right to reputation. At present, he has received relevant information about the court's acceptance of the case.
Among the reasons Tesla sued is that the company is the general dealer of "Tesla" brand cars in China. Since April 19, 2021, on the Toutiao platform operated by ByteDance, users "5,000 years of rabbits" have long published infringing content involving Tesla. The user deliberately fabricated and fabricated facts to defame the plaintiff's business activities, and at the same time used insulting words to maliciously slander and belittle the plaintiff and the "Tesla" brand car.
Tesla pointed out in the indictment that the total number of visits to the content posted by the user's "five-thousand-year-old rabbit" was as high as about 6 million times, which objectively guided a large number of other today's headline users, consumers and potential consumers to misunderstand Tesla's business activities, causing Tesla's social evaluation to decrease, causing great damage to Tesla's reputation.
Tesla complained to ByteDance on May 21, 2021, requesting the removal of the infringing content, and Toutiao explicitly refused to deal with it on the same day. Since then, the infringing content has continued to spread, and the damage to Tesla has continued to expand.
Tesla believes that today's headlines, as a network service provider, neglected to perform the management duties and obligations of the infringing content and the published account involved in the case, infringing the plaintiff's right to reputation, and should bear the corresponding infringement liability. Request the court to order ByteDance to stop the infringement, including deleting all infringing content involving the plaintiff published by the user "Five Thousand Years of Rabbit"; and require ByteDance to provide relevant information about "Five Thousand Years of Rabbit", add "Five Thousand Years of Rabbit" to participate in the lawsuit; pay Tesla 500,000 yuan in infringement damages and other litigation claims.