Hot lemon water to fight cancer, divine medicine on the market ... Say "No" to these rumors.

Hot lemon water to fight cancer, divine medicine on the market ... Say "No" to these rumors.

Hot lemon water to fight cancer, cure rate of 75% anticancer drugs on the market ...For the past 2018, this kind of information that has flooded the web may be unfamiliar to you. They all have a common name: Cyber Rumors.

Recently released the "2018 Network Rumor governance report" shows that WeChat platform 2018 all year round intercepted more than 84,000 rumors, disinformation articles read nearly 1.1 billion times. The report also noted that information in areas such as food safety, health care and social livelihood were "hard-hit" by rumours.The report is a reminder that online rumors are still a problem that cannot be ignored in the rambling cyberspace.

The popularity of the internet has provided a new hotbed for the growth of rumors.There are many reasons why online rumors are in the big way. First of all, the borderless and instantaneous nature of the internet makes rumors spread more widely and spread faster, and many messages can spread throughout the network in a matter of hours. Secondly, the low threshold and openness of the network make all kinds of news can be spread, mixed, and the anonymity of the network makes the Communicator free from the bondage of social responsibility and legal obligation.Finally, the opaque and non-disclosure of relevant information sources is also an important reason for the growth of network rumors. Authoritative information release lag, the release mechanism is not perfect, to the rumor flood to space, so, the network has become a rumor of the place. In the sprawling network information, many people are defensive, have to "recruit", and even themselves become the communicator of online rumors.

From the "2018 Network rumor Management report", we can see that rumors "hard-hit areas" are mostly closely related to people's daily life content. This means that there is a general lack of more authoritative popular science platforms on health, food and health. In addition to rumours related to scientific common sense, there are slanders against individual citizens, fabrications against public events, and so on. "The wind qingping the end of the Night", which will not only affect the reputation of the individual, but also bring a real or potential threat to the normal social order. Over the years, with the country to carry out purification network environment action, crack down on network rumors, the network ecological environment has improved significantly. But some cyber disinformation still exists, and the soil of online rumors has yet to be eradicated.

The governance of network rumors needs to be worked on many aspects. First of all, establish an authoritative information dissemination platform, improve the information dissemination mechanism, and strive to improve the credibility of the Government and related departments. Secondly, the media, as the distribution channel and "Gatekeeper" of information, should strictly verify the information, strengthen the content management, reduce the occurrence of "reverse news", and not blindly drive the direction of public opinion. In addition, for the general public, through the Internet and other channels to obtain information, do not understate, do not blindly spread, should learn to distinguish between true and false information, and actively take up the rights granted by law to report online rumors, so that more people know the truth, which is the obligation of people in the Internet era.