"Mr. Jia, have you returned to Beijing?"
After Jia Yueting released the latest Weibo on the morning of the 7th, some netizens left such a message in the comments.
On May 7, Jia Yueting forwarded a faraday Future blog post with a picture saying, "Faraday Future is one step closer to realizing its original vision..."
Careful netizens found that Jia Yueting's above-mentioned Weibo was posted in Beijing, and his personal social account IP was also in Beijing.
As a result, netizens instantly fried the pan.
Some people think that "Jia Zong has returned to China", but others believe that "his Weibo is either managed by himself or is looking for a little brother in Beijing to send it."
Public information shows that on July 4, 2017, Jia Yueting, who suffered a debt crisis, boarded a plane to the United States. Before going to the United States, Jia Yueting had said that this was only a short-term business trip and would return to China next week. However, since then, "Jia Yueting will return to China next week" once became a famous paragraph on the Internet.
In July 2021, the FF founded by Jia Yueting successfully landed on the NASDAQ, and when asked by the media whether there was any intention of returning to China, Jia Yueting bluntly said "that is necessary".
So jia Yueting really returned to China now?
"We are one step closer to realizing our original vision"
After U.S. stock market on May 6, Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "FF") finally announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021 within the deadline given by NASDAQ, and said that it would hold a conference call open to investors after submitting its first quarter results in mid-May.
According to the financial report, as of September 30, 2021, the balance of cash and cash equivalents on FF's account was $666 million. Operating expenses for the third quarter were $186 million, primarily due to increased investment in the Hanford manufacturing facility in preparation for full commercial production.
FF's third-quarter net loss was $304 million, compared to a net loss of $33 million in the year-ago quarter. FF said the increase in net loss was primarily due to a significant increase in operating expenses, losses on changes in the fair value of notes payable, notes payable denominated at fair value, losses on fair value changes in warrant liabilities, and losses arising from the processing of notes payable to related parties, notes payable and suppliers payable.
As for the delay in announcing the Q3 financial report, FF said that it was affected by the investigation work of the company's special committee.
On October 7, 2021, J Capital Research, a US short-selling agency, released a 28-page report on FF, expressing doubts about FF from multiple angles such as production capacity, capital operation performance, and R&D investment.
In response to this short report, the FF Board of Directors deliberately set up a special committee composed of independent directors, with the assistance of independent legal counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP law firm and independent audit firm Alvarez & Marsal, through several months of internal self-examination, and finally showed that FF's information disclosure was correct, clear and transparent.
FF also said that as of March 31, 2022, FF's first model FF91 has 401 pre-orders and will begin deliveries in the third quarter of 2022 as planned.
In this regard, on May 7, Jia Yueting forwarded FF's Weibo about performance on the latest Weibo, and did not forget to comment: Through the submission of this 10-Q financial report document, we are one step closer to realizing our original vision. We are confident that the production of the FF 91 Futurist will be completed on time and with high quality. Thank you to the team for their hard work, and thank you to our users, shareholders and partners for their continued support.
However, Jia Yueting could not have imagined that his Weibo would be paid attention again, not because he was "one step closer to realizing his original vision", but because of his IP address.
Jia Yueting, have you returned to China?
On April 28, Weibo issued an announcement that all open comments displayed the small tail function of the IP territory of the appraiser, and launched the "personal homepage level page to display IP territory" function. According to reports, this is mainly to reduce the impersonation of hot event parties, malicious rumors, rubbing traffic and other bad behaviors, to ensure the authenticity and transparency of the disseminated content.
In fact, in addition to Sina Weibo, according to incomplete statistics, in April, today's headlines, douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Zhihu and other platforms have also issued announcements that they have gradually opened the "personal homepage display account IP territory" function. Some platforms will also display a small tail of the user's IP territory in some comments or answers, and the user himself cannot actively turn on or off the function.
Simply put, users will be shown IP territory when they send content or comment on these platforms in the future.
At present, the reason why Jia Yueting is considered to have returned to China by some netizens is that the release positioning and IP positioning of his latest Weibo show the word "Beijing".
In this regard, according to the e company reporter, as most celebrity accounts are operated by professional operation teams, the social media account of "Jia Yueting" takes into account the problem of jet lag, and some content is released with the assistance of the domestic operation team.
The big guy Internet celebrity "can't hide"
The doubts raised by Jia Yueting are not unique!
According to the China News Network, after the IP territorial function was launched, a large number of Internet celebrities appeared in their original form, and the IP territory of "Lai Sauce in Tokyo" was displayed as Shanghai; the IP territory of "Nana in the UK" was Guangdong; and the IP territory of "Wang Yaoshi in the UK" was Tianjin.
There are also IP territories for Shandong's "cc eat and drink in Germany"; IP territories for Hainan's "Xiao Chen in India"; IP territories for Guangdong's "chawen in Japan".
There is also a passage that said that as soon as he called a friend, he heard him say, "Just got off the plane, people are in the United States." At that time I felt like you were pretending, but I had no evidence. Now there's, "Do you dare to tweet?"
According to The Southern + report, although some bloggers explained that their content production teams are abroad and the operation team is at home, netizens do not buy it.
The black industry chain is quietly online
It is worth mentioning that the business of paid proxy IP has also begun to rise quietly.
It is understood that IP is the unique identity address required for Internet access, and proxy IP is an intermediate platform in the process of Internet access, which is accessed by the local computer first, and then accessed by the proxy IP to the target website page. Therefore, the use of proxy IP can disguise the user's real IP address. Specifically, IP proxies can be divided into proxy IP according to the protocol, which can be divided into http protocol proxies, https protocol proxies and socket5 proxies.
The reporter found on the Taobao platform that many online stores are providing IP services, including static and dynamic proxy IP, supporting computers, mobile phones, simulators and other devices. The service provides payment modes such as annual, monthly, and daily rental according to the duration. The reporter found in an online store on the Taobao platform that the static agent IP service needs 19.8 yuan per month.
(Using the "Joker Proxy" software can switch the IP address to most provinces and cities in China.) ）
The reporter also found that some merchants who provide proxy IP said on the payment page that the servers they use are filed in China and strictly abide by the Internet Security Law, and there is no prohibited illegal function.
However, Liao Jianxun, a lawyer at Guangdong Guoding Law Firm, believes that by using an agent IP to modify territorial information, it is to provide false and misleading information to the public, it is an act of dishonesty, and there is still a certain risk of violations of laws and regulations. ”
Source | 21st Century Business Herald (Author: Du Qiaomei), Nanfang + (Reporter: Wu Yang, Intern Chen Jiaxing), China News Network, Zhongxin Jingwei, e Company
Editor of this issue: Wang Tingting