Chapter 589: The whole network is in uproar
What do netizens like to do?
Besides reading gossip, don’t you just like to eat all kinds of melons?
Among these gossips, those about politics and gossip are the most attractive.
So, when these elements appeared in the same thing, netizens were all excited.
Especially because of Zhao Xuan's incident, the Zhao Group has received a lot of attention during this period. So when the two things coincide, it is like adding fuel to the fire.
It’s a hot topic on the entire Internet!
Many, many netizens are discussing and eating melons about these two things.
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As these events became more and more heated, someone in the chairman's office of the Zhao Group finally couldn't sit still anymore.
Zhao Qingtian sat behind the chair, looking at the contents on the screen with a gloomy face.
His female assistant standing in front of him stood there trembling and dared not speak.
Zhao Qingtian asked, "Is this the guy Chen Yan who took action?"
"Why does he like to go against me so much?"
"Does he really want to stand up for Zhao Xuan?"
"Besides, they are so well prepared..."
Speaking of this, Zhao Qingtian laughed angrily, "Besides, is this the only thing he knows?"
"Couldn't he have done something else?"
"I've already suppressed it once, but he dared to bring it up again! Doesn't he really know how serious this matter is?"
As he said this, the phone on his desk rang.
Zhao Qingtian picked up the phone, took a look at it, and then answered the call.
He was obviously familiar with the person on the other end of the phone. He said, "I know. I know. This matter cannot be made a big deal. I'll handle it right away."
"You should also put pressure on various platforms to ask them to remove the article and trending searches."
"Should we withdraw Zhao Xuan's matter?"
When talking about this topic, Zhao Qingtian obviously hesitated.
After a moment, he said in a deep voice, "Let's retreat together. If we leave him behind, people will think of us."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Qingtian looked at the female assistant in front of him and said, "Do you know what to do?"
The female assistant nodded quickly.
Zhao Qingtian waved his hand, motioning her to go down.
Seeing his action, the female assistant hesitated for a moment, but did not move. Instead, she asked, "Mr. Zhao, are we just giving up?"
Zhao Qingtian glanced at her and sneered.
He had the appearance of a tyrant. When he smiled, the temperature in the room suddenly dropped by two degrees. "Give up? How can I give up?"
"If you can't use public opinion to pressure people, can't you use power to pressure people?"
At this point, a meaningful expression appeared on his face. "Actually, I didn't expect Chen Yan and the others to fight back like this."
“I even have a plan.”
"It's just that I don't think they would be that stupid."
"This incident will definitely hit me, but it will also cheer those people up."
"Those people are not as 'soft-hearted' as I am. When faced with threats that may affect them, they will never spare any effort to fight them."
Having said this, he paused, and then said, "However, this will also allow that ignorant little fellow to understand clearly who is the master of this country..."
Hearing Zhao Qingtian's words, the female secretary suddenly showed a look of realization on her face, and then she quickly said, "I understand, Mr. Zhao, I will go down and arrange it now."
Zhao Qingtian waved his hands and stopped talking.
This time the female secretary obediently walked down.
After the female secretary left and the office door closed, the room fell into silence. However, Zhao Qingtian raised his head and frowned slightly.
He didn't lie.
Although he really didn't want Chen Yan to reveal this matter, he was a man who planned before taking action, so it was already part of his plan that Chen Yan would bring up this matter again to fight back against him.
Even among his several emergency plans, he only handled the simplest one.
But for some reason, even though everything was as planned, he always felt a little uneasy in his heart.
This sixth sense that came from decades of business experience made Zhao Xuan feel something was not right.
Although he had gone over his response plan many times in his mind and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, it was precisely this feeling of something wrong that he didn't know where it came from that made him feel very uncomfortable.
He didn't like this kind of uncertainty. He preferred to endure hardships for many years, and then strike with thunder, causing the enemy to die in despair.
Thinking of this, Zhao Qingtian sighed deeply, then stood up, picked up the tea, and walked to the glass curtain wall of his office.
Looking at the huge city beneath his feet, Zhao Xuan felt much calmer.
He took a sip of tea, and then put on a smile that showed he was planning a strategy again...
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Ever since the Zhao Group incident became a big deal, the Weibo public opinion management department has been receiving calls almost non-stop.
Whether it was the Zhao Group's public relations department, the external publicity departments of several universities, or the Internet information departments of several places, they all called to warn Weibo, saying that this matter involved many unspeakable people, and asked them to quickly deal with the relevant information and not to continue to expand the impact.
Because the matter is of great importance, Cao Weiguo is personally in charge here.
Whenever he heard what was said on the phone, Cao Weiguo would marvel at the ingenuity of Chen Yan's plan.
Therefore, he asked his subordinates to record the conversation while at the same time trying to persuade the other party earnestly, saying that the popularity was too high now and if they withdrew directly, it would easily lead to unimaginable consequences.
However, the other party has been dealing with Weibo for a long time, and dealing with public opinion on Weibo is also a long-term matter, so they rejected Cao Weiguo's "good intentions" without hesitation and insisted on letting Weibo's public opinion department handle it urgently.
After seeing that these people had fallen into the trap, Cao Weiguo left the public opinion department with satisfaction.
After leaving the department, Cao Weiguo thought for a moment, then took out an anonymous phone card from his pocket, put it in his phone, and secretly sent a text message...
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In modern society, the development of science and technology has shortened the distance of information dissemination.
It may only take a few minutes for an order to be created, issued, and executed.
Especially things like removing trending searches and blocking entries, Weibo has been doing this for a long time.
So, with one order, all hot searches about the Zhao Group and those unspeakable people were removed.
Many netizens wanted to continue discussing this matter without believing it.
However, because Weibo had added blocked words in the background in advance, many netizens’ Weibo posts were immediately blocked as soon as they were sent out.
In fact, normally speaking, achieving this level is enough.
In the past, Weibo helped companies deal with public opinion, but this was the most it could do. Sometimes, it didn’t even block keywords.
However, now Cao Weiguo has to expand according to Chen Yan's arrangements.
Therefore, the level of public opinion handling on Weibo was particularly high this time.
Not only can I not post relevant Weibo posts, I can’t even send private messages with keywords.
Moreover, originally only the original words would have been blocked, but this time even slang was added to the banned word database.
This time, netizens were furious.
This matter was originally fermenting on Weibo, but now it has been banned so thoroughly that many netizens are angry.
They all went to the relevant Weibo staff to curse and demand an explanation.
While discussing their rights, they also frantically @ed major well-known media outlets, hoping that they could do justice for them.
Many netizens combined the last incident and raised their own doubts: "Capital can now shut up as it pleases and hype as it pleases. Is it no longer under the control of the state?"
Others question whether this is a violation of freedom of speech.
Others are even more conspiracy-minded, suspecting that Weibo is a dog of the Zhao Group, so it always rushes out to clean up the mess.
Just when everyone was excited, a heavyweight official account "Tuan Tuan" finally spoke out amid public expectations.
After finding a deleted media Weibo post, it commented:
[Public opinion cannot be handled bluntly, but should be investigated publicly. Only an official investigation can reveal the truth of the matter.]
After seeing this Weibo post, netizens seemed to have found their backbone and flocked to comment and repost it.
After seeing this Weibo post, all the forces that had been trying to calm the situation were dumbfounded.
Be it Zhao Qingtian, the media, or the universities and local governments, no one expected Tuantuan's fate.
This made Zhao Qingtian, who had been planning the situation, panic.
However, they were all people who had seen the world after all, and after a little panic, they began to use their connections to find the insiders of the group.
After finding the connection, they communicated and found out that the group was not aware of the matter and it was the manager in charge of Weibo who posted the Weibo himself.
Of course, normally, as managers, they also have the right to act at their own convenience. But... this matter is too big, and they issued it directly without asking for instructions, so there must be something wrong.
Therefore, the group immediately launched an internal investigation into the matter, trying to find out whether the person involved really misjudged the importance and complexity of the matter, or whether he did it intentionally.
Zhao Qingtian and his colleagues heaved a sigh of relief after learning that this was done by the managers themselves, thinking it was probably just a misunderstanding.
They guessed that since this matter was so sensitive, Tuantuan should soon come out with the results of the investigation and deal with the relevant personnel and Weibo.
At that time, they can throw out some celebrity gossip or scandals to divert attention and let the matter pass smoothly.
As a result, just when everyone thought that everything was fine, suddenly... Tuantuan ’s Weibo post was directly deleted, and the account was directly shown as banned.
At this moment, everyone was really dumbfounded.
Before this, no one would have thought that there would be such a powerful platform that dared to challenge Tuantuan. And it was directly banned!
This is the official channel for speaking!
How can this be!
Who is in charge of this country?
As a result, netizens were completely outraged, and Zhao Qingtian and others were also completely panicked.
This time, Zhao Qingtian couldn't even sit still and directly called Cao Weiguo.
When the call was connected, Zhao Qingtian yelled, "You are crazy! What are you doing! You banned Tuan Tuan!"
Cao Weiguo was also very interesting. He asked in a voice that sounded very honest to him, "Who...are you? Sorry, did you call the wrong number?"
Hearing Cao Weiguo's words, Zhao Qingtian was stunned for a moment.
Then he took down his phone hesitantly and checked the phone number on the table. After making sure that he had dialed the right number, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
Then he said calmly, "Hello. Is this Mr. Cao Weiguo? I am Zhao Qingtian."
Cao Weiguo's honest voice continued to come from the other end of the phone, "Zhao Qingtian? Zhao Qingtian from the Zhao Group?"
Zhao Qingtian said "hmm".
Cao Weiguo continued to ask, "Is it Zhao Qingtian from the Zhao Group that got into trouble recently?"
Zhao Qingtian: ...
His good self-control made him say "hmm" again.
Then Cao Weiguo smiled "honestly" and said, "Oh, it turns out to be Mr. Zhao. I have heard of your name for a long time. What can I do for you?"
Zhao Qingtian had obviously calmed down after the previous gaffe. He now spoke slowly after careful consideration of every word he said, "Boss Cao, may I ask why you banned Tuantuan's Weibo?"
Hearing Zhao Qingtian's words, Cao Weiguo said in confusion, "Banned Tuan Tuan's Weibo? What do you mean by ban? I don't know."
Zhao Qingtian asked back, "You don't know?"
Cao Weiguo said in confusion, "Yes. Well, Mr. Zhao, wait a moment, I'll find out."
After he finished speaking, the sound of keyboard typing came from the other end of the phone. After a while, the voice of Cao Weiguo talking to someone was heard in the distance.
The voice first became louder, then softer, and finally suddenly turned into a curse.
"Have you had your heads pushed by pigs? You even dare to silence Tuan Tuan!"
"What? Did the Zhao Group inform you?"
"They told you to do it, and you did it? If they told you to give them your Weibo, would you do it too?"
"Is Zhao Group your boss, or am I your boss?"
"Every day they call to notify more people than I do."
"You might as well just do what they say."
Listening to Cao Weiguo's indirect criticism, Zhao Qingtian's knuckles turned pale as he held the phone. However, he knew that he had to figure things out now, so he could only endure it for the time being.
However, after enduring for two minutes, Zhao Qingtian suddenly seemed to have thought of something.
His face darkened slightly, and then he hung up the phone with a snap.
"Something's wrong. Something's wrong..."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Qingtian thought more and more that something was wrong.
Originally he thought it was a misunderstanding, but after the misunderstanding occurred, Cao Weiguo and he were in the same boat, so he called to question and discuss remedial measures.
But now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Is Weibo really so stupid as to make such a huge mistake?
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