There are some people
In order to rub traffic and attract attention
Using the Internet to fabricate and spread rumors
Distorting facts and exaggerating claims
As a result, he was punished for fabricating and spreading rumors!
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Case of being fined for spreading rumors in Changtai District, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province
On March 21, 2024, the police of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Changtai Public Security Bureau found that netizen Xu posted a video message on a platform with the content: "The chemical plant is on fire, and the smoke is billowing out", which has been viewed by many people and caused adverse social impact. After verification, the text content of the video is false information. Subsequently, the police dug deep into the content related to the video and found that netizen Ran had posted similar content, with the caption: "It's not easy to do anything, there was such a big fire on the first day in Zhangzhou, and it burned for 4 hours." After investigation, it was found that Ran deliberately exaggerated the facts and fabricated false information in order to attract attention, causing a bad impact.
At present, Xu and Ran have confessed to their illegal acts, and the Changtai Public Security has criticized and educated the two in accordance with the law, ordered them to delete the relevant videos, eliminated the negative impact, and required them to write a letter of guarantee, promising to consciously abide by network security laws and regulations in the future.
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Case of being fined for spreading rumors in Peng'an County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province
On March 29, 2024, the relevant person in charge of Peng'an No. 2 Middle School reported to the local police that platforms such as "Today's Headlines" and "Douyin" have released short videos from the media, titled "A letter written by Liu Yating, a student who jumped off the building in Peng'an No. 2 Middle School, Nanchong, Sichuan, to all teachers, poor children go all the way".
After receiving the police, the Peng'an Public Security quickly organized the Internet police to investigate, and Gong, who was located in Pidu District, Chengdu, was more suspicious and summoned him on the morning of April 2. During the questioning, Gong confessed to his illegal acts, admitting that after seeing the relevant text information on the Internet at that time, in order to win attention and attract traffic through his self-media account without verification, he used short video editing software to generate and publish rumor content on multiple platforms using the AI "Wensheng Video" function.
After the education and administrative punishment of the Peng'an Internet Police, Gong deeply realized the bad impact of his behavior on relevant schools and local society, and said that he would think about and screen online information in the future, and resolutely would not have a similar situation again.
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Hongqi District, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, was fined for spreading rumors
In December 2023, Wu in Hongqi District, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, fabricated and published rumors on online platforms about "people's park sprinkler poisoning", which quickly aroused heated public discussions, disrupted public order, and caused adverse social impacts. After an investigation by the Hongqi Public Security Organ in accordance with the law, Wu truthfully confessed his illegal acts. At present, the Hongqi public security organs have imposed an administrative punishment on Wu in accordance with the law.
Public security reminder
The Internet is not a place outside the law, and the general public is requested not to spread rumors, believe rumors, or spread rumors, and jointly maintain a healthy and clear Internet environment; the public security organs will severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts such as deliberately fabricating, disseminating, and disrupting public order on the Internet.
In the age of information explosion
Rumors abound on the Internet
Not only misleading the public
It can also have a negative impact on society
The vast number of netizens should raise their awareness of the rule of law
Enhance your ability to discern rumors
Let's learn about the laws and regulations related to online rumors
Learn how to recognize and avoid spreading rumors
Online rumors refer to the use of domestic and foreign websites, social platforms, and other online media by persons with ulterior motives to disseminate false information that has no factual basis and is offensive and purposeful.
[Types of Common Internet Rumors]
01 Rumors of cyber disasters
Fabricating information that a certain disaster is about to occur, or fabricating or exaggerating harmful information about a disaster that has already occurred, causing public panic and disrupting social and economic order.
02 Internet horror rumors
refers to fabricating terrorist information or information on incidents that endanger public security, causing public panic, disrupting social order, causing public dissatisfaction with government management, and affecting social stability.
03 Cybercrime rumors
Refers to fabricating appalling or heinous criminal information that causes public anger and fear, arouses public dissatisfaction with the government, government workers or certain groups, and also affects the reputation of the person concerned and disrupts their normal life.
04 Online food and product safety rumors
It refers to fabricating or exaggerating the existence of quality problems in a certain type of food or product, causing public resistance to such food or product, and resulting in losses for the producer or seller of such food or product.
05 Rumors of personal events on the Internet
It refers to fabricating false information to attract attention to certain individuals, infringing on the privacy of the parties, causing negative impacts and even economic losses to the parties.
[How to distinguish rumors]
Internet rumors have the characteristics of exaggerating the seriousness of the incident, taking quotes out of context, and shifting flowers, so how to tell whether the incident you see is true can be judged from the following perspectives:
1. The authority of the article release. Pay attention to whether there is a signature or source at the end of the article, and judge whether it is published by authoritative media or institutions, so as to avoid being biased by the author's subjective speculation.
2. Objectivity of the content point of view. When reading, you should pay attention to whether the article has exaggerated facts, generalized generalizations, taken out of context, extreme remarks, and inappropriate expressions.
3. Browse the health of the page. In order to attract attention, some platforms set pornographic, exaggerated and other types of images as covers, or pages contain a large number of ads, links to online novels and other unhealthy content.
【Public Security Law Popularization】
Article 25 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China": Anyone who commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may be concurrently fined up to 500 yuan, and where the circumstances are more minor, he shall be detained for up to 5 days or fined up to 500 yuan:
(1) Spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangers, epidemics, or police information, or intentionally disrupting public order by other means.
(2) Disrupting public order by discharging false explosive, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances, infectious disease pathogens, or other dangerous substances.
(3) Threatening to disrupt public order by setting fires, exploding, or discharging dangerous substances.
Article 105 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Whoever instigates subversion of state power or overthrows the socialist system by spreading rumors, slander or other means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, short-term detention, controlled release or deprivation of political rights;
Article 221 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Whoever fabricates or disseminates false facts, harms the commercial reputation or reputation of others, causes major losses to others, or has other serious circumstances, is to be sentenced to up to two years imprisonment or short-term detention and/or a fine.
Article 246 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Whoever openly insults others or fabricates facts to slander others by violence or other means, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, short-term detention, controlled release, or deprivation of political rights.
Article 291-1, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Whoever fabricates false information about dangers, epidemics, disasters, or police information, and disseminates it on information networks or other media, or knowingly disseminates the false information described above, intentionally disseminates it on information networks or other media, seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, short-term detention or controlled release;
Source: Changtai Public Security, Ping An Wancheng, etc