Legal analysis: Malicious slander affects the company image. Even if it causes serious consequences, it can only constitute a crime of damaging business reputation and commodity reputation, but not a crime of libel. Its filing standard: (1) causing direct economic losses of more than 500,000 yuan to others; (2) Those who fail to meet the above-mentioned amount standard, but have one of the following circumstances: ① seriously hinder the normal production and business activities of others or lead to production suspension or bankruptcy; (2) Causing adverse effects. Those who have not caused or caused minor damage may be investigated for civil liability or administrative liability instead of being punished as a crime.
Legal basis: Article 221 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) fabricates and disseminates false facts, which damages others' commercial reputation and commodity reputation, causing heavy losses to others or other serious circumstances, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined.