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The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China (www.wired.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/globalnews

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9858725

A wave of social media influencers are earning money by promoting illegal knockoffs imported from China on Facebook, TikTok, Discord, and Reddit. Pandabuy alone claims to have signed up thousands of content creators to its marketing program last year. They serve as the public face of an elaborate new counterfeiting economy that is proving difficult for tech platforms to combat and makes the dealers of Manhattan’s Canal Street look downright primitive.

It works by connecting Western buyers to Pandabuy and other fast-growing Chinese sites that act as a go-between for shopping marketplaces stuffed with fakes usually sold only inside China. In exchange for promoting the platforms, the influencers earn a cut of each sale.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As long as the buyers know they're knock offs and they aren't overpriced, who cares?

[–] darkevilmac 1 points 8 months ago

Main concern is the lack of regulation on the actual materials being used to make the products.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-fast-fashion-chemicals-1.6193385