抖音副总裁回应社媒平台出现“月薪X万离开字节”帖子：系培训机构引流卖课，已起诉

Core Viewpoint - The Vice President of Douyin, Li Liang, addressed the rise of posts on social media claiming to be from "ByteDance employees" who left for high salaries, stating that these are often fabricated by training institutions to attract customers for their courses. Legal action has been taken against one particularly rampant entity, resulting in a court ruling against their misleading practices [1][6][7]. Group 1 - Numerous posts on social media falsely claim to be from former ByteDance employees, often featuring titles like "Left ByteDance for a monthly salary of X" [1]. - Investigations revealed that many authors of these posts had never worked at ByteDance, and the posts were part of a strategy by training institutions to leverage the company's name for marketing [1][4]. - A court ruling determined that the actions of the accused training institution constituted misleading advertising and unfair competition, leading to a requirement for them to issue a public statement and pay damages of 50,000 yuan [6][7]. Group 2 - The case involved Douyin Shijie Co., Ltd. as the plaintiff, with the court recognizing "ByteDance" as a legally protected name due to its significant influence [6]. - The defendant, a certain education technology company, was found to have engaged in unfair competition by using deceptive practices to promote their training courses, including falsely claiming to be former employees of ByteDance [6][7]. - The defendant's actions included creating misleading posts on platforms like Xiaohongshu to attract users to their paid Python training course priced at 7,880 yuan [7].