Economic Daily: We must not let fake "anti-counterfeiting" become a traffic password.

On March 24, Jin10 reported that some marketing accounts are rehashing old news into this year’s “3·15 exposure list” to create panic; or charging companies fees for “removing from the blacklist” and “getting on the whitelist”… In fact, there has never been a “whitelist” in the annual news reports about “3·15”; this is merely some marketing accounts exploiting the public’s trust in “3·15” to gain attention. This kind of fake exposure and real profit “list game” not only harms the economic interests of companies but also destroys the market development environment. The value of “3·15” lies in promoting industry progress with the truth and creating a consumer environment that instills confidence. Using “anti-counterfeiting” to harvest traffic is a destruction of social ethics. Protecting the truth is the only way to safeguard consumer confidence, and adhering to the principle of “seeking truth from facts” in supervision is essential for consumer rights protection to genuinely serve social welfare.