Urgent Proposal to Actively Maintain the Online Order of Flood Control and Disaster Relief

2023.08.18

Recently, extreme rainfall has occurred in Northeast China, North China, Huang-Huai region, and other areas, leading to residents being trapped and casualties. Rescue forces from all over the country have rapidly assembled and rushed to the front lines of disaster relief, fully committing to flood control and disaster relief efforts. During this special period when the whole nation is united in disaster relief, some netizens have fabricated and spread false information about the disaster situation, inciting regional opposition and discrimination, severely disrupting the online public opinion order, and interfering with and hindering disaster relief efforts. To further purify the online environment and maintain network order, and to fully support the main theme of the nation's unity in disaster relief, recovery, and ensuring the safety of people's lives and property and the stability of the overall social situation, we hereby issue the following proposal:

I. Actively Resist the Online Spread of illegal and Harmful information.

1. Firmly resist illegal and harmful information. Do not create, believe in, or spread illegal and negative information related to disaster relief, do not spread unverified information, do not fan the flames, and do not randomly spread unverified reports, privacy leaks, personal attacks, and inappropriate remarks.

2. Strictly manage information release accounts. Strengthen manual review and qualification certification of account information, strictly prevent the impersonation of government, military, news media, local government, and user accounts, strictly control "self-media" accounts that do not meet qualification certification requirements and are engaged in the production of information content in specific fields, and strictly prohibit the operation of "self-media" account matrices to release and spread illegal and negative information related to disaster relief.

3. Strictly manage the content of information released. When users post news information, they should annotate the source of the information according to relevant regulations; when self-filming information, they should annotate the time and location of filming one by one; when using technology to generate information, they should mark the technology-generated label; when quoting old news, they should state the time and location of the event; when posting information containing fictional content, they should add a fictional label; platforms will mark disputed or rumor information with controversy, rumor labels, and take measures such as limiting flow, debunking, and silencing according to regulations.

II. Insist on "Zero Tolerance" for illegal and Harmful information.

4. Enhance the awareness of network civilization. Establish correct network ethics, actively resist and report various online criminal and vulgar behaviors, resolutely fight against online criminal activities, and fully protect the legal rights and interests of the state, society, collectives, and individuals.

5. Strengthen positive guidance of public opinion. Through platform agreements and user agreements, improve management measures for the number of fans and profit rights, and for illegal and non-compliant accounts, take measures such as closing and silencing or limiting and prohibiting the addition of new fans and clearing all fans according to the situation; for users who use multiple accounts to Free-riding hot topics and sensitive events related to flood control and disaster relief for malicious marketing, cancel or strictly prohibit the granting of profit rights.

Actively create a healthy online public opinion ecosystem. For "self-media" accounts, clearly mark the affiliated MCN institutions, and for MCN institutions that use signed accounts 


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