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CX Daily: How Paying for Likes Is Becoming a Crime in China

Published: Sep. 24, 2026  9:00 a.m.  GMT+8
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In Depth: How Paying for Likes Is Becoming a Crime in China

China’s courts are grappling with how to punish the growing business of artificially inflating views, likes, comments and other engagement to make merchants and products appear more popular than they are.

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