Tesla's lawsuit against Pinwan for compensation has made further progress. Just today, Pinwan issued an apology statement on its official website. The following is the specific content: Beijing Pinxi Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. published three articles on the "Pinwan" website, APP, WeChat official account, WeChat applet, Weibo, Pinwan Sohu account, Pinwan NetEase account, and Pinwan Penguin platform operated by it during December 2020, namely"Pinwan Depth-Tesla China Chaos Revealed Season 3", "Response to Tesla Vice President Ms. Tao Lin's Response", "Pinwan's Response and Statement on Related Slander".
The three articles contain comments on the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory operated by Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and its employees, managers, products, business practices, etc.A large amount of negative and inaccurate information. In the process of writing and publishing the three articles, our company failed to fulfill its reasonable verification obligations and used insulting words in the articles, which caused serious damage to Tesla's reputation.
Our company hereby makes a formal apology to Tesla.We sincerely apologize for the reputational damage our company’s actions have caused to Tesla., and promised to strictly fulfill the obligations of careful verification and reasonable evaluation when reporting and commenting in the future. Finally, I would like to express my deep apologies to Tesla.
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Pinwan published the three reports mentioned in the statement in December 2020. The articles stated that Tesla's quality standards have declined, defective parts are used to load cars, and vehicle quality control standards have been lowered; the management method is too rough and full of "contractor" culture, and the Shanghai Tesla factory has been reduced to a "blood and tears factory."
The article aroused strong dissatisfaction with Tesla, and it sued Pinwan and demanded that the entire network delete the article.Apologize to Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and compensate RMB 5 million.
After a subsequent trial, the court ruled that Tesla won the case and Pinwan was required to delete the infringing articles it published on eight social platforms and issue a written apology on the homepage of each platform.Pinned lasts for no less than 30 days. In addition, Pinwan also needs to compensate Tesla for economic losses of 100,000 yuan..
Pinwan was dissatisfied with the verdict and appealed, but the second-instance court rejected Pinwan's appeal and upheld the original verdict.