Inside these rumors, you can see the most colorful bullshit in the world, as well as Yoneda***-like absurdity. (AKA Kryptonite - colorful)
It's as if an otherworldly world is around.
01.
While netizens were focusing their attention on Shaanxi, someone wrote a gross misrepresentation in the news in response to issues such as queuing up for a nucleic acid test:
"More than half of the people who have been diagnosed in the city of Xi'an were infected during a nucleic acid test"
as well as spreading a WeChat group Rumor:
"More than 800 people in the apartment were isolated in the Ladingbian Desert"
Some people, on the other hand, made up a notice in response to the entry and exit of the neighborhood:
"Police officers in the city's major streets to carry out rigorous investigations of people roaming outside the city, arrests "
Local horse gangs in Fengyang County spontaneously raised supplies to donate to the community after the outbreak, and someone changed the story into a rumor:
"Danfeng County, Shangluo City, used mule and horse teams to transport supplies due to restrictions on vehicles for the prevention and control of the outbreak."
The rumor was also second-handed and written as a Xi'an story.
These are standard lies that make people think others are having a bad time and are heading for extinction.
The subtext is also obvious, which is to imply that the city is acting in an inactive and chaotic manner.
To reinforce the effect of empathy, the rumor-mongers show up by bringing the perspective back to themselves.
Some provoked confrontation by posting the rumor:
"The third shipment of supplies has been received" (with the location intentionally and falsely marked as the provincial government's family home)
Some intentionally discredited themselves by posting the rumor:
"We've been confined to our home for almost 20 days. Only once have we received vegetables, 2 potatoes, 2 onions, a cabbage, 2 white carrots ...... please what are we going to eat ...... please are we going to be starved to death at home?"
In fact, her family had no food or drink problems at all.
These extreme indictments of the quality of city management always get traffic attention.
They try to make people think that the city is experiencing hard times while being stolen by a segment of the population, so the city is getting worse.
Who wouldn't look at that and be angry, I ask?
Another deep focus on the lives of ordinary people would be even more conducive to a cathartic atmosphere.
The two sides of a WeChat called "Huxian Bun Shop" had a dispute, when someone insulted the customer as a pig, and another took the opportunity to make up a rumor:
"The day after tomorrow, the price of a unified increase in the (bun)"
Xi'an People were in a hurry to buy electricity when a rumor began to spread:
"Xi'an power sales system down for maintenance can not buy electricity"
Focusing on food, clothing, housing and transportation rumors, the more detailed the better, but also the more people think that the danger is only three kilometers away from them.
Of course, this is where the long-windedness comes in.
A public number wrote the article "Woe to the people of Xi'an: why do some people flee from Xi'an despite breaking the law and risking their lives?
"The cost of quarantine in Xi'an is at least 5,000 yuan," "direct and brutal shutdown of the healthcare system," and "no food for the average neighborhood resident."
The article spreads untruths. /p>
It was speculated that the article could be read by millions, so the author himself took a chance when the rumor was debunked.
He admitted to spreading the rumor and left a message apologizing, but made sure to wait until 24 hours after publication to delete it, in order to further boost exposure.
This article has since been deleted and this public number is not searchable.
All of this shows that the rumors that emerged from the Xi'an outbreak were meant to capitalize on people's anxiety to make ill-gotten gains.
Most of the details of the incident have been ignored or simplified, leaving only the golden sentence.
And the people touched by the words are far from the truth.
02.
Besides Shaanxi, other places are beginning to be targeted by rumor-mongers.
"More than 20 people in Hangzhou's Ziyang neighborhood have been infected with New Crown"
"A New Crown-positive Spanish athlete came into Beijing and went to Sanlitun to play"
"Nanhou village in the Qingyuan district of (Baoding) The village was closed due to the epidemic."
These rumors are often spread through the format of "there is also a case" and go hand in hand with the closure of villages and neighborhoods.
Don't believe you see the more common lines of "norms":
"Huang village to the seal, there is an escape back to hide in the mountains," "Goshi village found a case of positive patients, now the whole village in the nucleic acid test, said the village will be closed soon.
"(Beilun) Bodi also has a case"
There are also cases of taking themselves as the eye-catching one.
Just finished the nucleic acid test of the hitman, download gallery to change the nucleic acid report, he sent a circle of friends and friends and family group, and used to scare the landlord. This rumor is like this:
"I, nucleic acid test results, positive"
Summarized, we can see that the group of friends and relatives, community owners group is the concentration of rumors.
At the same time, we can see that they are not looking for the number of horrors, sometimes "there has been a case" to bring the deterrent effect, is enough to make people forward.
Because the danger of being accessible, the danger of being present, and the danger of simplicity are all enough to undermine confidence.
The question is on whose head does such danger seem more terrifying?
The kind, well-protected, uninvolved student population, with generations of their families involved, is a good sample.
One rumor is:
"Tianjin Dongli District Education Bureau Nucleic Acid Examination results of good students return to school notice"
Another rumor is:
"Jinhua Vocational and Technical College appeared in a case of a new coronary pneumonia confirmed case "
There have been a number of previous rumors, including one about Xi'an students.
Cao fictionalized a normal video of an out-of-town student leaving school as:
"Students from a school in Xi'an moved to the Qinling Mountains for quarantine"
And many, many more.
Careful readers will have noticed the word "notice" in the image above.
It's true that sometimes documents have to be created to make it look that way, and after all, a "notice" or "announcement" is good enough to fool anyone anywhere.
But the people who are careful will also be stamped with a big element of the so-called truth - the red seal.
"Wenzhou Zhantai glasses factory found a new crown confirmed cases, everyone please do not go to the Wutian Industrial Zone (Pangfeng) within the scope of the holiday in order to be able to go home smoothly, please be sure to comply."
Go document style rumors, and this.
Some WeChat groups are spreading the so-called latest requirements for epidemic prevention in Shenzhen:
"Nucleic acid tests will be conducted for the whole city from tomorrow (Saturday)." "The city has entered a wartime state of epidemic prevention and control." "All residents out of the city hold a 48-hour nucleic acid test certificate."
It's called the division of rumors.
Of course to better compel people, one has to bring on the celebrity effect when saying it like it is.
Our own Dr. Zhang Wenhong is often targeted by rumor mongers.
Some people have added to the story of the outbreak in Shanghai, eventually turning it into a "weird story":
"She shopped at the fruit store, shopped at the Hang Lung LV, and then both were closed today. Also with Zhang Wenhong live in a building, so today Zhang Wenhong was also home quarantine"
Can be described as imaginative.
So close to becoming a screenwriter and making a sci-fi movie.
03.
But the rumor market is so big, it's bound to be a mixed bag.
You can't expect every rumor monger to be "highly skilled"; some are unskilled and uninterested.
For example, old news that is being rehashed.
A rumor:
"Chengdu urgently reserved 30,000 beds to cope with the epidemic"
These old paragraphs are repeatedly speculated, dating back to June 24, 2020 at the furthest.
A rumor:
"Completely lifting the panel||Gao Ling District"
It's similar, with the content of the message being fudged from a February 2020 release.
And also, for example, the eastern patchwork.
Shenzhen's Health Commission wrote an article with content describing a circular from Shangyu, Zhejiang, and that part was then distorted to read:
"(Shenzhen) found 'yellow code' 'red code' ' personnel to give cash rewards"
The actual original text reads.
That is to say, the rumor-mongers planted the Shaoxing Shangyu thing on Shenzhen.
Also, for example, ignoring the official clarification.
The place where the video of a mother and son falling from a building in Xingping, Xianyang, was doctored to Xi'an, and it was said that the husband had committed the murder:
"The man threw his wife and child, down from the 15th floor."
News reports quoted the Xingping police again and again as saying, "The mother who fell from the building and her son were not thrown down the stairs by her husband, and the incident had nothing to do with the man."
Rumor-believers naturally don't believe any of this, and are still spreading rumors as if to challenge the findings of the investigation from multiple angles.
While these rumor-mongering is not very technical, it is obviously not too bad.
See how originality doesn't always go down well in the rumor world?
So if you're good at melting stems, then the rumors that are created may be able to quickly and effectively affect normal people's lives as well.
Just keep it simple and crude.
Very yellow and violent is fine.
04.
No, yellow rumors about human hormones are bound to make waves.
And, please don't make it false, the messier the better.
Some people have been frantically spreading a breakdown of the chain of transmission of the so-called confirmed cases:
"A female nurse in an outpatient department had intimate relationships with an isolated hotel employee and a university teacher, respectively, which led to the spread of the new crown outbreak."
Huashang Daily clarified that this diagram of the chain of transmission of confirmed cases was not the original, and that the "lover relationship between cases" labeled on the diagram was a rumor.
The opposite of a woman's "flirtation" is often a man's "whoring".
Through other rumors in the past six months, the ones about men are often like this:
"Nanjing for the first time to inform the source of the epidemic: the accountant of Nanjing Bay riding a battery-operated bicycle to visit prostitutes to be cross-infected"
"(Hunan Changsha, Yuelu District) a man to visit prostitutes to cause multiple infections. New Crown."
"A man with a confirmed case went to Chongqing Jiangbei District to visit prostitutes at Hongding International, causing the building to be closed and controlled."
The so-called parties in the rumor are often fun people, so that it can appear the absurdity of the parties, contrasted with the innocence of ordinary people.
"Fun" is a word for many things.
Many people see such rumors, whether they believe it or not, will be the corners of the mouth snickering.
As if, as passers-by, they also have to admire the strong physique of the person concerned.
05.
At this point, we can't blame the truth for being slow in coming and leaving some of those involved in the cyber violence extremely hurt.
A study published in the journal Science may illustrate one reason.
They collected data from Twitter between 2006 and 2018, selecting 126,000 news tweets and analyzing them for this purpose, and showed that:
Even the hottest real news is rarely delivered to more than 1,000 tweeters, but fake news can often be delivered to 1,000 or even 10,000 people.
And, fake content is delivered to 1,500 people six times faster than real content is delivered to 1,500 people. And, the likelihood of retweeting false news the first time you see it is 70 percent higher than true information.
Rumors naturally spread faster and harder than truth.
Going back to the source, one reason is that individuals are helpless and panicked in the face of the big time.
Individuals are more and more trapped in isolation, and more helpless and disoriented in a state of disorganized interaction with reality.
Then one looks for various antidotes.
They tend to listen to whoever is closest to them and whoever is most able to mobilize them emotionally.
Some objective, some subjective, some legitimate, some not, many, many more.
Feng shui superstitions can make waves again, and chicken soup for the soul can dominate the market for how many years, all for the same reason, rumors are the same.
For example, a light-hearted, humorous rumor this time of year is sure to temper all emotions, neutralize all positions, and make people laugh.
See a screenshot of a text message circulating on the Internet labeled from the Xi'an Mental Health Center:
"During the quarantine period, if you are talking to plants and trees this is normal no need to call for counseling, and it is only necessary to seek assistance if those plants and trees start to answer your questions."
Kind of funny, but it's also solidly uninformative.
Laughing, it's clear that rumors are just so strange and varied.
Of course this is not a time when we are helpless.
Such administrative detention.
Such.
Such.
The disinformation was timely.
White text on a blue background is really painful to read.
In the end, it's still the hope that this debunked information will get into the hands of those who need it.
After all, it's the truth that makes life more comfortable.
Lastly, things come together, people are divided into groups, contact with better people can also make you become the same person, welcome to pay attention to the official public number: gray production circle