An 8-year-old boy was lost in Guangming New Village, Nantong City, and was found in the river next to Hongqiao Organ Gas Station. Unfortunately, his body organs were stolen. I heard that it was done by Xinjiang people ... "From the evening of June 18, this rumor was widely forwarded in the circle of WeChat friends, and the information was accompanied by a video of salvaging the boy's body. On the afternoon of June 2 1, Nantong Internet Police released a message through the WeChat public platform, revealing that a case of spreading rumors by using WeChat was cracked, and the man who fabricated this rumor, Song, was sentenced to administrative detention for 7 days. (June 23, Modern Express)

To tell the truth, this news that "the boy's organ was stolen" appeared in my circle of friends that night, but my first reaction was to question it, because too many similar "friends circle rumors" have made people "tired of listening to rumors", but not everyone is instinctively wary of WeChat rumors. Like other shocking "friends circle rumors" such as "robbing children" and "picking organs", "the boy's organs were stolen" quickly spread throughout WeChat.

It should be said that the rumor monger was punished by administrative detention for seven days, which was totally self-inflicted. However, this unverified rumor of "stealing organs" and other false and untrue information can't stand serious scrutiny. Why do some people always believe it, and some people always turn their faces and even explode their circle of friends?

First, the initiator spread rumors for various purposes, making rumors flying all over the sky, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. For example, the war man song admits that "it was just a kind of excitement and fun at that time, but I didn't expect it to have such a big impact and consequences." There are also some people who hype for the needs of commercial marketing, using various "love relays" or eye-catching and shocking news to attract attention, causing "friends circle rumors" to spread like a virus.

Second, people's sense of security is reduced in real life. As long as there are dangerous information related to personal safety, food safety, disease health and so on on the Internet, it will immediately arouse public anxiety, especially the terrorist information such as "stealing children" and "stealing organs", which can stimulate anxiety, hatred and sympathy, and produce group abuse, thus reducing people's rational judgment ability and making such rumors easily "deeply rooted in the hearts of the people".

Third, driven by "herd mentality", the content of rumors is often closely related to people's lives, but most people lack professional judgment. When forwarding and sharing, friends around them will also hold the psychology of "believing in it, not believing in it" and involuntarily choose to follow suit and "widely announce it". Not only for self-seeking "safety", but also for reminding friends and relatives, thus becoming a "collective unconscious disseminator" of rumors.

To prevent "friends circle rumors" from happening again and again, we need to take multiple measures and comprehensively manage them. In addition to the continuous improvement of social civilization, security and the rule of law, it is also necessary for the network police to intensify inspections to detect, crack down and publicize rumors; Need for industry and commerce, WeChat platform to strengthen supervision and self-discipline; The public needs to be vigilant, strengthen their independent judgment, and don't @ others at will; It is also necessary to refine the legal provisions, check the shortcomings of the "thick-line" law, introduce special laws to combat media fraud and false information, try our best to "stop rumors in the law" and use the rule of law to curb "friends circle rumors."