"Lying down and getting shot!" On March 17, when a reporter from Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News met the veteran artist Xiang Mei in the Shanghai Film Actor Troupe, the 84-year-old could not hide her anger. What made her angry was several self-media articles that spread rumors that her retirement life was unhappy and her children were indifferent.
Recently, Xiang Mei, the head of the original actors troupe and a famous actor, found that there were a large number of untrue articles about her later life in some self-media, and the number of forwards was amazing. These rumors caused great damage to Xiang Mei's reputation, and she did not follow up after her real-name complaint. One article even wrote: "What is unknown is that Xiang Mei was not happy after retirement, and her son's indifference and daughter-in-law's meanness made her retirement life a chicken feather, which made people feel a thousand emotions..." In fact, Xiang Mei's son and daughter-in-law are quite filial piety, and the feelings between family members are deep.
Self-media article rumors xiang mei "retirement life sad"
The reporter found that not only Xiang Mei, Yang Zaibao, DaShichang and other old artists have been recruited, and these mass-produced so-called "old artists are desolate at night" rumors have nearly one million hits per article. Actor Liang Polo also found himself rumored a few days ago, but there was no way to complain. "Who will supervise these self-media chaos?" In an exclusive interview with Jiefang Daily Shangguan News, Xiang Mei called on relevant accounts to stop infringement, eliminate the impact and apologize, so as not to let the old artists become victims of traffic.
Xiang Mei: My old age was very happy
Xiang Mei was born in Beijing in August 1937. In 1957, when she was studying in the third year of the Department of Architecture of Tianjin University, she was selected by Xie Jin, a famous director of Shanghai Film Studio, to participate in the film "Female Blue No. 5", and since then she has appeared on the big screen, representing works such as "Red Detachment of Women", "The Gunshot of the Secret Bureau", "Blue Archives", "Long Hate Song", "Red Flower That Never Withers", etc.
In 1959, Xiang Mei married Chi Xidao, former deputy director of Shanghai Film Studio and executive deputy general manager of Shanghai Film Group. In 1960, their only son, Chi Jing, was born. When she was young, Xiang Mei was obsessed with work, and when her son was 4 months old, she went out to act, and for 8 months a year, she was on location, and she almost did not eat a normal dinner at home. Chi Xidao has always supported and encouraged her career, and after the 1990s, Xiang Mei faded from the screen and returned to her family.
Xiang Mei took a group photo with her son and daughter-in-law
In 1986, Chi Jing and his wife went to the United States to study and work, but the less they met, the more mother and son fell in love. The son has always been very self-reliant, during the difficult period of entrepreneurship, he did not forget to send gifts to Xiang Mei, before the epidemic, every Spring Festival would go home to accompany the old two. "My later years were very happy, and my son and daughter-in-law were very filial." Therefore, when seeing "83-year-old Xiang Mei retirement life is sad, the truth behind it is exposed, waking up tens of millions of retirees!" When the self-media article was published, Xiang Mei froze.
This small program called "Look at the New Pictures and Texts" quotes a large number of photos of Xiang Mei, and in her self-reported tone, she regretted giving her pension to her son, but she did not expect that her son and daughter-in-law were not filial piety, resulting in no money to see a doctor and a miserable life. The article was seen by Chi Jing's friend first, forwarded to Xiang Mei, and the daughter-in-law used 5 words to express her mood at that time, "Lying down and being shot." "I was really shot lying down, who did I provoke?" Recently, people have been forwarding this rumor information to Xiang Mei. Although relatives and friends around me are helping to debunk rumors, they are still in the face of millions of views.
Xiang Mei and her family
Xiang Mei reported the false information through her son's real name, but did not get a response. The son and friends left a clarification message under the article, which was also quickly deleted. "With our real names and photographs, there must be factual evidence. The lack of supervision of self-media on the platform has allowed these rumors to spread everywhere, causing a bad impact on society, and also chilling for us, the old actors who have worked hard all their lives. ”
Rumors "mass" production
The Jiefang Daily And Shangguan News reporter searched and found that it was not Xiang Mei who was rumored to be desolate in the evening scene, and the old artist who was "recruited" was by no means an isolated case. Yang Zaibao, Zhang Hongjie, Yan Shunkai, Wang Xiaotang, Wang Fuli and other performance artists have been crowned with various rumors. Some articles wrote that Wang Xiaotang was "thrown out of the house by his daughter-in-law after retirement", and some wrote that Wang Fuli was "bullied by his relatives". Yang Zaibao, a film performance artist who passed away in February this year, was even more disrespected by these nonsensical articles as not respected by his relatives in his later years.
Old artists and celebrities were rumored in batches
Actor Niu Ben's oath of joining the party was actually rumored. "The oath of joining the party of the 86-year-old cow ben touched countless audiences at the scene!" Cause tens of millions of middle-aged people to cry! The article claimed to have compiled and edited niuben's oath, but the content published was a fabricated "Letter to All Middle-Aged and Elderly Compatriots in the Country".
The reporter found that this type of mass-produced "rumors" have a unified format. First of all, he played the sentiment card with the film experience and stills of the old artist, and then introduced the retirement and later life. In many articles, these introductions are also dubbed "self-descriptions" by old artists. Looking at the content of the article, the content of the "rumors" is much the same, almost all of which are rendering the tragic retirement life of children such as filial piety and no one to provide for the elderly.
It is not difficult to find that these rumors are mainly for the elderly readership, and the font of the article is also large, which is suitable for the elderly to read. Under each article, "advice" such as "pension sentences" will be sent, and middle-aged and elderly readers will be induced to share.
This kind of patchwork of rumor-mongering articles has hundreds of thousands or millions of hits
Surprisingly, the number of hits to these articles is not low, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. Under Xiang Mei's rumor-mongering article, many readers who believed that they were real helped to "come up with ideas", suggesting that she "replace her social security card, change her password, and get back the pension given to her son", which made people cry and laugh.
For such rumors, many readers believe it
There is more than one account like this. The self-media titled "Fun Wen Sheng Hua" also published an article titled "83-year-old artists live in their children's homes for a month, only to know where their old age is!" Worthy of Vigilance" article. Although the article does not name names, it uses a large number of work photos and life photos of Xiang Mei, and it is difficult for readers not to associate with Xiang Mei.
A group of old artists with both virtue and art have become victims of the bleakness of the evening scene in these rumor articles. "If these accounts don't delete the rumors, we want to go to justice." Xiang Mei said.
Online rights protection is still difficult
In the background of the Mini Program "Look at the New Pictures and Texts", the Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter saw that the developer information was displayed as "Shenzhen Bao'an District Hangcheng Anhe Automobile Service Business Department", and the service category was displayed as "Industry Information". Obviously, the current mass-produced rumor articles are far from the scope of business.
He Chenyong, a lawyer at Shanghai Zhengce Law Firm, told reporters that this type of article has been suspected of infringing Oni's personality rights. "Personality rights in civil law include the right to reputation, privacy and other rights, here the rumor-mongers are suspected of infringing On The right to reputation of Ms. Xiang Mei, according to the provisions of the Civil Code, the victims of personality rights infringed have the right to ask the perpetrator to bear the responsibility of stopping the infringement, eliminating the impact, restoring the reputation, and apologizing." Ms. Xiang Mei may request that the publisher or author bear legal responsibility by deleting posts, apologizing, etc. ”
Xiang Mei was interviewed exclusively by a reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News in the Shanghai Film Actor Troupe
Zeng Mingquan, a lawyer at Fujian Daye Law Firm, suggested that there are three ways to safeguard rights. "First, through the platform complaint, WeChat Mini Program or WeChat article will have a channel for complaints, which is a way to avoid further increasing damage; the second is civil litigation, early evidence collection, fixing the facts of the article release, and then disclosing and investigating the main body of the account, and then prosecuting through the dispute over the right to reputation; the third is the administrative or criminal channel, the victim can choose to call the police."
Xiang Mei was interviewed by a reporter from Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News
But in fact, rights protection is far more difficult than imagined. "Through such articles, mini programs increase users or clicks, and subsequently launch their own services or advertise to benefit." Zeng Mingquan said that the use of new media to spread rumors is now common, but it may be difficult to determine the identity of the infringer, or even to appeal for deletion in a timely manner. "If the account is not registered or authenticated with a real name, even if it is infringed, it is difficult to determine the identity of the infringer." Moreover, some new media do not have content review and complaint channels themselves, and it is more difficult for victims to appeal and delete them in a timely manner. "Coupled with the low cost of new media forwarding and fast dissemination, once released, even if the source is deleted, the discussion and dissemination on the Internet may still be there."
"This batch of accounts that specialize in rumor-mongering should be banned", appealing to Mei that the platform should strengthen supervision of self-media information.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Zhang Yi Title Image Source: Xiang Mei was interviewed by a reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News
Source: Author: Zhong Han Zhang Yi