The new media era is an era of information explosion, which brings benefits to people and enables them to live in a more transparent society, but it also brings information harassment to people, not to mention that countless pieces of junk information that are entertaining to death every day consume our attention, and all kinds of false information that are full of space are even more troublesome. From "the most beautiful girl in Shenzhen" to "the tramp becomes a multimillionaire", and then to the jaw-dropping taxi fake news, fake news constantly breaks through the public imagination.

In the Anhui woman's death, the police punished those who fabricated lies, and the relevant departments also punished several bloggers who deliberately created and forwarded rumors in Weibo. Several tickets issued by the police and internet administrators have aroused social reflection on rumors and fake news. My point of view is that false news certainly needs to be punished according to law, and rumors must also be investigated according to law. This is a principle. But at the same time, we should be alert to the accusation of "spreading rumors", alienate it into a stick to suppress different views, and monopolize the right to speak with the stigma of "fake news".

It is necessary to find out which information is not fake news.

First, the truth is not always clear from the beginning, and the truth is often complicated. People often see appearances and illusions at first sight. They imagine the facts according to their own prejudices. Some people who don't want the truth to be revealed are hiding the facts, creating illusions and deliberately setting up information smoke screens to confuse the audience. In this process, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes in judgment.

In other words, facts and truth are not presented at the same time. Their presentation is a process, and there are bound to be some mixed information in the process of presenting the truth-news reports are also a process of getting closer and closer to the truth. Journalists' investigation and discovery of new facts may overturn previous judgments, but this does not mean that previous reports must be "fake news". Of course, in the process of investigation without sufficient evidence and conclusive sources, journalists should be as cautious as possible, restrain their prejudice, imagination, jumping to conclusions and impetuousness, speak with facts, tell as many facts as possible, and approach the truth with the facts of investigation, instead of piecing together a complete truth according to imaginary fragments. However, the investigation methods of the media and journalists are limited, and human rationality is also limited. The media is not the Audit Commission, CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection or the Ministry of Supervision, and we cannot expect the media and media people to be 100% accurate.

Second, not all information without conclusive facts is fake news and rumors. The public has the right to reasonable doubt in many things and cannot stigmatize reasonable doubt into rumors. For example, after the abnormal collapse of a bridge in Harbin, many people on the Internet questioned the quality of the bridge and wondered whether the bridge was tofu dregs-many early news and comments were based on this suspicion under the condition of opaque information. Of course, the final investigation results prove that there is no problem with the quality of the bridge, just the cause of overload. Were the previous suspicions rumors and fake news? Of course not. On the one hand, it is only "suspicion", but it cannot be concluded that it is tofu residue; On the other hand, even if it is clearly said that it is tofu residue, it is not a rumor, but a question-the bridge collapsed abnormally. In the process of facts becoming public and information becoming transparent, people's doubts are normal and reasonable.