Alibaba accuses rival JD.com of launching 'organised attacks' before Singles Day

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has accused its main rival JD.com of launching ‘organised attacks’ in the lead up to its popular 11.11 Singles Day event, by publishing thousand of negative news about the company.
In a strongly worded post on Sina Weibo, on November 22, Alibaba’s senior counsel accused JD.com of being directly involved in the publishing more than 9700 negative posts through nearly 500 anonymous accounts on social media around Singles Day, of which over 4600