Official media information is still relatively credible in the eyes of the public, and can often guide public opinion. Recently, the urban live WeChat video account of a provincial radio and television station released a video of "Dali May Day tourism is cold".
But the interesting thing came, shortly after the above video was released, Dali officially released a set of May Day reception statistics on tourists: three days before the May Day holiday, Dali received a total of 2.1084 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 363%.
The same is official media news, one says that Dali May Day tourism is cold, and the other says that Dali May Day holiday tourists are full. Netizens were directly blindfolded, who should believe and who is lying.
Netizens also left messages to express their opinions, and even netizens who traveled to Yunnan came forward to say, of course, netizens said everything. Some netizens said: There is indeed not much traffic. Some netizens said: Dali's famous attractions are jammed with traffic throughout the day.
Just when the majority of netizens were arguing, on May 2, Lou Kewei, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, urgently refuted rumors on his Weibo, the content of which mainly has two meanings:
The video of "Dali May Day Tourism Cold" released by a provincial official media was untrue, and urged relevant units to strengthen management; Dali May Day tourism is popular, not only not cold but crowded.
After the refuting Weibo was issued, some careful netizens found that the video of "Dali May Day Tourism Cold" released by the urban live WeChat video account of a provincial radio and television station could not be opened.
So what is the truth? Relevant travel platform data is available for reference. According to data from a travel platform, during this year's "May Day" holiday, the number of bookings of Dali B&B increased by more than 3.6 times compared with 2022.
At present, the controversy caused by the video has also come to an end, but as an official media, it can largely guide the direction of public opinion, so you must be cautious when publishing information.
Many netizens may ask whether the person responsible for posting this false video of "Dali May Day Tourism Cold" will be punished, I think there will be such a work mistake, this board is afraid that it will not run.