Recently, the Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security announced
A number of typical cases involving rumors
One of them was carried out by the Hefei police in Anhui Province
The cracked cases have attracted attention
What's going on?
01
At 20:34 on January 25 this year, the online blogger "Flying Fish" posted a message on a platform: A fire broke out in Jiahai Industrial Park, Xinzhan Station, Yaohai District, Hefei, Anhui Province, causing many casualties, and the specific number of casualties has not yet been announced.
But what is the truth?
At noon that day, the fire department quickly rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm, and the fire was quickly controlled and extinguished with hard work. Hefei Fire issued a fire report on the same day, the fire burned an area of about 470 square meters, no casualties, and the cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
In addition, the fire occurred in the Xinzhan area, not the Yaohai area as shown in the post.
After an investigation by the Hefei police, it was determined that the location of the blogger "Flying Fish" was Chengdu, Sichuan, and the content he published was an Internet rumor.
02
With the cooperation of the Chengdu police, the Hefei police summoned the rumor-mongering blogger Lin Moumou for investigation.
According to the police, the blogger first saw the report of the fire in Hefei through the short video platform, intercepted the pictures reported by the relevant media, copied part of the text in the report, and then put the content into the AI software to generate articles, and continued to use AI to carry out a second expansion, after reading and reviewing, copying, pasting, publishing, and rumor posts appeared.
It is understood that the original intention of the poster was to make posting a side hustle after work to earn some manuscript fees. However, his illegal acts have constituted spreading rumors and disturbing public order.
In accordance with Article 25 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China", the police imposed an administrative punishment on Lin Moumou in accordance with the law. At present, the content of Lin Moumou's rumors has been deleted.
Lin Moumou: (I) feel very sorry, I am deeply aware of my irresponsibility and the negative impact caused, and after being educated by the public security organs, I understand the harm caused by rumors to individuals and society.
Axiao Pupu
The Internet is no place outside the law
The law respects and protects the freedom of speech of individual citizens
But all netizens should abide by the law
Be responsible for your online words and actions
Don't spread rumors, don't spread rumors
It's also illegal to lie about the fire!
Article 25 (1) of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China": Whoever spreads rumors, falsely reports dangers, epidemics, police information, or intentionally disrupts public order by other means shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined up to 500 yuan;
Article 291-1 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China:
[Crime of Disseminating False Dangerous Substances; Crime of Fabricating or Intentionally Disseminating False Terrorist Information] Whoever dissemins false explosive, poisonous, radioactive, infectious disease pathogens, or other such substances, or fabricates explosive threats, biochemical threats, radiation threats, or other terrorist information, or knowingly disseminates terrorist information that is fabricated, seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to up to five years imprisonment, short-term detention or controlled release;
[Crime of Fabricating or Intentionally Disseminating False Information] 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, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment, short-term detention, or controlled release;