Source: Shanghai Network Debunking Rumors
Recently, a Weibo topic "#A female college student in Shanghai helped the elderly was blackmailed#" was hotly discussed on the Internet, with 3.586 million readers.
The cause is September 26, a network V tweeted:
Recently, a female college student in Shanghai was blackmailed to help the elderly, and the children of the elderly not only did not return the 1,000 yuan of medical expenses advanced by the female college students, but also blackmailed 5,000 yuan. Female college students had no choice but to call the police, and after the monitoring proved innocence, female college students demanded that the elderly and their children compensate for mental losses of 50,000 yuan. On September 22, the primary (people's) court of a district in Shanghai ruled in the first instance, and the female college student won the case! ”
△ Internet rumors
The subtitles of the video released by the network big V showed: "The police (surveillance) video restored the innocence of the female college student, but the female college student refused to reconcile and insisted on using legal weapons to protect her rights and interests." ”
△ Screenshot of the internet rumor video
In addition, the video also mentions the first-instance judgment of a primary (people's) court in a district of Shanghai: "In view of the old man's age, he is exempt from criminal law (punishment), but his children will face a 15-day detention punishment." At the same time, he publicly apologized and compensated the female college students for mental losses of 56,000 yuan. ”
The reporter of the Shanghai Rumor Suppression Platform noted that the media interviewing college students in the video was not a local media in Shanghai, but a "Feixi (Note: Feixi County, Hefei City, Anhui Province) Radio and Television Station".
△ Rumored video screenshot.
At the same time, the verdict is completely illogical.
There is no such thing as "a criminal is exempt from punishment because of his age", and it is impossible for parents to implicate children.
After further investigation by the reporter of the Shanghai rumor dispelling platform, the above rumors are pure fabrications.
It turned out that the prototype of the rumor was the warm news of a female college student helping the elderly, which occurred on August 2, 2019 in Feixi County, Hefei City, Anhui Province.
△Image source:
WeChat public account "Feixi Rong Media"
According to The Hefei News Channel reported on August 17, 2019, at more than four o'clock in the afternoon of August 2, at the intersection of Tangkou Road and Sangang Road in Sangang Village, Shangpai Town, Feixi County, an old man in his 50s suddenly overturned on a tricycle, and the enthusiastic prospective college student Yin Huating immediately went forward to check and dial 120 after discovery, holding up her raincoat for more than 20 minutes to shield the elderly from the wind and rain, although the old man who fell down eventually died unfortunately, but Yin Huating's actions in the rain made countless people see a kind heart.
After the incident, many media such as People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency have praised it!
This Feixi girl Yin Huating, who happened to meet the old man who fell down on a bicycle and was protected by the wind and rain, was also selected as a "good person in Anhui".
△ Yin Huating was selected as "Anhui Good Man"
Coincidentally, the same "female college students helping the elderly were blackmailed" was also rumored to have occurred in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The reporter verified and found that this is also a rumor.
The rumor post is accompanied by two pictures of elderly people in different costumes falling to the ground, both of which were stolen from news pictures over the years, and there has been no similar incident in Hangzhou recently.
△ Another internet rumor.
As the saying goes, "the beginning of a picture, the next all depends on the compilation."
The self-media stole news pictures from previous years, arbitrarily used their imagination to fabricate rumors, and did not indicate specific time, place and people, making it difficult to distinguish, which is really bad. Everyone must keep an eye on similar online posts when browsing, and do not be led by people's noses and deceived by fake news.