Chinanews.com, September 29. According to the WeChat official account of "Internet Information China", at present, various online rumors are spreading from time to time, confounding the audience, misleading the public, destroying the network ecology, and disrupting public order.
"A certain student lost the admission notice" to consume love and make improper profits; "fans are made of plastic" maliciously smear and disrupt the market; "a malicious needle injection incident occurred in a certain place" is alarmist and creates panic; It can starve cancer cells to death", "frequent nucleic acid production causes a sharp increase in throat cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer", etc., which endanger people's life safety and health, and the majority of netizens react strongly and hate it.
Since August this year, in accordance with the unified arrangement of the special action of "Crackdown on Internet Rumors and False Information", the Central Cyberspace Administration of China's Reporting Center, together with the Network Comprehensive Governance Bureau, has focused on the areas of society and people's livelihood that are related to the vital interests of the people. Relying on the Internet joint rumor-refuting platform, it organized 12 website platforms, including Weibo, Douyin, Baidu, Tencent, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, 360, Zhihu, Douban, UC Browser, and Phoenix.com, to develop online The work of refuting rumors and labels, comprehensively sorting out and marking the existing rumors, and timely reporting and exposing the marked samples of typical online rumors, so as to maximize the living space of online rumors and make online rumors nowhere to hide.
During the special work period, key websites and platforms actively participated in the in-depth analysis of platform data in recent years, and comprehensively sorted out 3,342 samples of existing rumors, involving key social and livelihood fields such as health, food safety, education and employment, and natural disasters.
After authoritative verification, the China Internet joint rumor-repudiation platform centrally marked the rumor-repudiation label for public exposure and warning.
Weibo, Douyin, Baidu, Tencent and other website platforms carried out self-examination on the whole platform based on authoritative releases, and marked more than 80,000 existing rumors with refuting labels.
All key websites and platforms have set up rumor-refuting columns or special rumor-refuting accounts to promptly release authoritative rumor-refuting information, and accurately push relevant rumor-refuting content to users who have been exposed to rumors.
According to the person in charge of the relevant unit of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, marking the rumor-refuting label is an active exploration of online rumor-refuting work and an important measure to further rectify the chaos of online rumors.
The Central Cyberspace Administration of China will continue to carry out the work of labeling online rumors, continuously improve the linkage work mechanism, and organize key website platforms to increase efforts to eliminate and expose online rumors.
The majority of netizens can provide clues to rumors and verify online rumors through the China Internet Joint Rumors Platform (https://www.piyao.org.cn).
The Central Cyberspace Administration of China will work with relevant departments and localities to actively respond to public concerns, promptly verify rumors and clues, and accurately label rumors to refute rumors, so that the truth can outperform rumors, and the people can enjoy a greater sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security in a clear and clean cyberspace. .