case in point: This piece explaining how American TikTok influencers have become the biggest peddlers of Chinese counterfeits via an affiliate marketing and "agent" system where a middleman buys the product domestically in China then ships it to US
https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-paid-promote-designer-knockoffs-from-china/
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2024-03-11 19:53:03
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