On March 22, NIO's legal department announced that NIO recently monitored an online account that fabricated and spread rumors related to NIO's business operations in the comment section in the identity of a NIO employee. After NIO reported the incident to the police, the public security organs quickly identified the offender and investigated and confirmed that the offender was an employee of another car company. The employee of the car company confessed to the illegal behavior. The public security organs determined that he had fabricated facts to disrupt public order and imposed administrative penalties on him.