The Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality recently (May 10) announced the typical cases of the 2023 "Qinglang Pujiang" online ecological governance special action, including: "Internet water army" gang hype "4-year-old child lost" incident, "Consumer Finance Channel" account released negative information related to enterprises to coerce business cooperation, Master Bazi App spread online superstitious information and other eight cases.
Last year, the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality carried out centralized rectification of related problems, cleaning up more than 3059,000 pieces of illegal and negative information, disposing of more than 566,000 accounts, and shutting down 164 websites in conjunction with the communications management department.
After the 4-year-old child went missing, the "water army" was prosecuted for hyping rumors
According to data from the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai, publishing illegal information for profit is a prominent feature of online illegal behavior. In order to make profits, lawbreakers organize "cyber trolls" and fabricate rumors and forward them on the Internet.
In the case of a 4-year-old child who went missing, a large number of online rumors appeared on the Internet after a child went missing, including that the child was not born to his father and that he had gone missing for the second time this year. After investigation, it was found that it was an organized "water army" gang that fabricated and spread these rumors.
Zhang Lin, police officer of the Cyber Security Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau: This "water army" gang is based on the company's legal person Li and manager Tian as the senior management, and organized 6 core writers such as Zhou Moufeng to search for hot spots and use AI to create false posts in batches. Subsequently, more than 30 writers of the company were organized to post and repost through a large number of platform accounts issued by the company to spread this public opinion.
Qiu Like, Level 4 Researcher of the Network Management Office of the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai: Because this incident occurred during the National Day holiday, the social concern is relatively high, and everyone hopes to learn the results as soon as possible. With the development of the search and rescue operation, at this time, some illegal self-media took advantage of people's psychology of hunting for curiosity and wanting to get the truth as soon as possible, and concocted some shocking articles, and some ordinary netizens also participated in forwarding them under the drive of emotion, gradually spreading and fermenting this rumor.
The "water army" continued to spread rumors and hype, and the network traffic increased sharply, bringing illegal benefits to the "water army" that created rumors.
Zhang Lin, police officer of the Cyber Security Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau: They have controlled a total of 114 online accounts, and continued to publish 268 posts about the little girl's disappearance, and received more than 40,000 yuan from posting from October 4 to 9 alone.
These online rumors have caused secondary harm to children's families and damaged the online ecology. The Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality coordinated with relevant departments to ban the online accounts involved in the case in accordance with the law, and at present, 12 suspected criminal members of the gang have been transferred for prosecution in accordance with the law.
Publishing false information related to enterprises and being arrested on suspicion of extortion and extortion
In this special operation, the police found that the methods of lawbreakers fabricating rumors and extortion on the Internet are becoming more and more "professional", and the routines of using the characteristics of network communication to engage in illegal activities are becoming more and more mature.
In the case of "'Consumer Finance Channel' Account Publishing Negative Information Involving Enterprises" announced this time, the WeChat official account "Consumer Finance Channel" published negative information about a technology company under the banner of "public opinion supervision" and forwarded it on multiple platforms.
Gu Ye, Deputy Director of the Network Management Department of the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai: Generally, they are pushed multiple articles and repeatedly, but as far as I know, there are some special software that can be distributed with one click.
After publishing a large amount of negative information about a technology company, the person in charge of the "Consumer Finance Channel" account used this to coerce relevant companies into business cooperation with them to carry out so-called "press release marketing and promotion" activities. And the negative information they release also has its own routine.
At present, the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration has coordinated with relevant departments to close the accounts of several platforms in accordance with the law, and the public security organs have arrested five criminal suspects of the gang, and compulsory measures have been taken in accordance with the law on suspicion of extortion, and the case is being further investigated.
Spreading superstitious information The "Master Bazi" App was interviewed
At the same time, the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration has also carried out key crackdowns, as well as some life service platforms that publish information on feudal superstition. For example, the "Master Bazi App Spreading Internet Superstitious Information" exposed this time is one of the typical cases.
During the inspection, the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai found that the "Master Bazi" App provided services such as career, financial luck, and eight-character marriage, as well as paid consultation, calculation and other services.
Dai Chan, a first-level chief staff member of the Network Management Department of the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration of China: The platform uses these so-called fortune calculations to induce users to pay, harming the personal economic interests of netizens, and at the same time, these so-called calculation results will also paralyze people's thinking and cognition, and become a spiritual sustenance for these long-term user groups, resulting in individuals may form some wrong values and world views, and may even lead to criminal behavior, endangering social stability.
After discovering this situation, the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration has instructed the Pudong New Area Cyberspace Administration to interview the person in charge of the platform, remove the problem section of the "Master Bazi" App involving "cloud fortune-telling", and punish the relevant person in charge.
Qi Jianghong, Deputy Director of the Network Management Department of the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration of China: Originally, feudal superstition was offline, which may be a sneaky behavior of individuals, but now when we open a web page at random, it may pop up master fortune telling, fortune test, feng shui transfer and other content, and even we found that in the sharing strategies of some medical beauty and housing decoration platforms, there will also be drainage information such as plastic surgery and transportation, loading and modification.
Carry out a number of special theme activities to build a healthy network environment
In response to online violations of laws and regulations, a few days ago (May 10), the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality launched the "Clear Pujiang 2024" network ecological governance action, and will carry out a number of theme days and open days to build a healthy network environment.
During the campaign, 28 themed days and website open days will be held. Among them, the featured theme days include: the theme day of optimizing the online business environment, the theme day of "self-media" governance, the theme day of opposing online violence, and the theme day of protecting minors online.
At the same time, the Cyberspace Administration of Shanghai Municipality also mobilized 12 key website platforms in its territory, launched a new review mechanism, actively planned website open day activities, and let netizens understand the effectiveness of the ecological governance of the website platform "zero distance" through various forms such as communication with anchors and interactive experiences, and jointly create a good network ecology.
Source: CCTV news client