How to deal with malicious rumors?

Deliberately spreading rumors about the epidemic on the Internet is likely to be sentenced to three to seven years in prison. However, those who generally spread rumors about the epidemic situation and have not caused particularly serious consequences shall not be investigated for criminal responsibility. Usually, the parties who spread rumors are sentenced to administrative detention for about 5 days to 15 days. There are three kinds of legal responsibilities for network rumors. Civil liability. If spreading rumors infringes on citizens' personal reputation or infringes on the goodwill of legal persons, according to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, they shall bear the responsibility of stopping the infringement, restoring their reputation, eliminating the influence, apologizing and compensating for the losses. Administrative responsibility. Those who spread rumors, falsely report dangerous situations, epidemic situations or police situations, or intentionally disturb public order by other means, or openly insult others or fabricate facts to slander others, which do not constitute a crime, shall be given administrative punishment.

legal ground

Article 25 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangerous situations, epidemic situations or police situations or intentionally disturbing public order by other means; (two) throwing fake explosions, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances to disturb public order; (3) Threatening to set fire, explode or throw dangerous substances to disturb public order. People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law Amendment. One paragraph is added as the second paragraph in Article 291 of the Criminal Law: "Fabricating false danger, epidemic situation, disaster situation, warning situation or