One side consisted of shills hired by speculative capital. The other side, well, to be more precise, might actually be the listed company itself.
Do speculative funds, institutions, and private equity firms have their own online shills? At this point, there's no doubt. They do, and plenty of them.
Even the stock market experts on TV programs take money to cover for market manipulators—how could the internet possibly be clean?
Later on, there were quite a few cases where licenses were revoked, or fines and prison sentences were imposed for such things. This behavior was most rampant around the 2015 bull market. This was also why financial articles couldn't be written, or if they were, they'd be deprioritized and strictly reviewed.
Therefore, Han Lie could understand the existence of these shills.
