1. According to the different types of rumors, it can constitute the crime of libel, false accusation and frame-up, stirring up trouble, damaging business reputation, commodity reputation, fabricating and spreading false information about securities and futures trading, and fabricating and spreading false terrorist information;

2. Spreading rumors may violate the Public Security Administration Punishment Law, and the serious case is a crime;

3. Whoever spreads rumors, falsely reports dangerous situations, epidemic situations, police situations or intentionally disturbs public order shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan;

4. If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan;

5. Whoever fabricates false danger, epidemic situation, disaster situation and warning information and spreads it on information networks and media, or knowingly spreads it on information networks and media, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance;

6. Whoever causes serious consequences shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

The rumors of rumors are dealt with as follows:

1 is a civil liability. Those who spread rumors that infringe upon citizens' personal reputation or infringe upon the goodwill of legal persons shall be responsible for stopping the infringement, restoring reputation, eliminating the influence, apologizing and compensating for losses in accordance with regulations;

This is an administrative responsibility. Spreading rumors, lying about dangerous situations, epidemic situations, police situations or intentionally disturbing public order, or openly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others, which does not constitute a crime, shall be given administrative penalties such as detention and fines in accordance with the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment;

3. This is criminal responsibility. Whoever spreads rumors and constitutes a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the provisions of China's criminal law.

To sum up, as the saying goes, people's words are terrible, and now rumors are terrible, because rumors sometimes not only cause psychological pressure on others, but also may lead to social disorder.

Legal basis:

Forty-second "People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Management Punishment Law"

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.