Despite doing so, Elly Campbell knew that even if what they said was true, netizens might not believe them.
"I’ve already ordered these actions to be taken, but CEO Campbell, this situation is just too strange. Our company had only gone public less than a week ago when this troubling incident occurred. As soon as this post came out, it exploded. When the stock market opens tomorrow, our stock price will certainly fluctuate greatly."
Elly Campbell had thought of this too.
"Let the public relations department handle it first. After the Technical Department traces the IP address of the post, let me know immediately."
The matter was definitely not as simple as just posting a message.
Indeed, as Elly Campbell predicted, the next day, after she had dropped off William for school and was on her way to the company, she glanced at the post and saw that many influential celebrities had already shared it.
With their massive fan bases, the post made it to the top of Hot Search as soon as it was released.
When Elly Campbell arrived at the company, the entrance was already packed with workers who had blocked the doorway, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.
She managed to get into the building through the back door.
Elly Campbell went straight to the conference room, where the company’s mid- and high-level executives were already waiting for her.
"Chairman, look at this, the post has just been updated again."
Elly Campbell took the tablet and looked at the newly updated post.
The post accused them of disregarding the safety of their workers, failing to provide proper protective measures for high-altitude operations.
After the accident, they didn’t provide timely remediation and simply left the worker at the hospital and walked away.
Attached was a video of a worker falling from an exterior scaffolding, as well as a photo of the worker lying on a hospital bed, fighting for life.
With the photos’ coloring and angles, the worker looked especially pitiful.
The post was phrased cunningly and was easily incendiary, which is why it blew up online almost immediately after being posted.
Most people online don’t care about the truth of the matter, they only know how to follow the crowd, vilifying and sympathizing with the underdog.
Now, in the eyes of the netizens, they were the powerful and influential big company, while the injured worker admitted to the hospital was a poor victim.
In this world, the majority hold on to the sentiment that if you’re poor you’re righteous, the envy of wealth, so what’s true doesn’t really matter to them.
Scrolling further down, there was a photo of Greenhill Ainley hitting someone.
Elly Campbell frowned, "Is this the worker’s son?"
She pointed at the photo posted in the thread.
Brayman Group’s CEO personally went down to fight the worker’s son, evading responsibility and oppressing the good.
Seeing this, Greenhill Ainley’s face reddened with anger.
"This worker’s son said a lot of unspeakable things that were directed at my mother, and he even tried to hit me, so I retaliated in anger..."
He stopped and pointed at the photo on the post, "This photo only captured me hitting him, but it was the worker’s son who hit me first, which the post doesn’t mention."
Elly Campbell nodded, with no intention of blaming Greenhill Ainley.
It was very clear that someone was intentionally stirring up the netizens’ emotions.
The worker’s son hit someone and spoke vile words, all with the purpose of deliberately provoking Greenhill Ainley to react so that he would lash out. The post was very much directional, aiming at Brayman, or perhaps... her?
The thread continued, and after an update, a new photo was added.
When she saw her own photo attached to the post, a flash of coldness swept through her eyes.