We-media's pursuit of profits does not mean anything goes

Police announced on Saturday that a 21-year-old flight attendant who was killed on the evening of May 5 in Zhengzhou, Henan province, was murdered by the driver of the car she had hailed using the Didi Chuxing service and the man had killed himself by jumping into a nearby river.

While most people have expressed relief that the case was solved so quickly and many have criticized the car-hailing company for its response and the loopholes in its system that enabled the tragedy, there has also been anger at the way some public social media accounts have covered the tragedy.

In one extreme example, a WeChat account with more than 10 million followers released an article using obscene and indecent words and phrases to depict the incident, which aroused widespread condemnation as it was tantamount to hurting the victim a second time after her death.