It's a rumor.

In the network of Sina blogs and cell phone WeChat circle circulated a "Maoming City, Gaozhou Changpo Reservoir appeared cannibalistic pond cormorant" rumor, graphic and text, said in the Gaozhou Reservoir every year, there are a number of inexplicable deaths by drowning, until the recent armed police captured a body length of 3 meters, the head of the wide 1-meter pond cormorant, only to unveil the reason for the pond cormorant directly to the people! eat into the stomach.

The Gaozhou City Public Security Bureau propaganda department to the Yuhu police station and other relevant departments to investigate and verify, Gaozhou Reservoir has not been found to have a giant pond trevally, the information is purely a rumor.

Extended information

Rumor characteristics:

Modern environment, the use of flexible and disorderly network communication, rumor dissemination has become faster and more powerful. Some rumors in the dissemination, often change, which on the one hand is the receiver and the dissemination of memory errors, more importantly, each person in the dissemination process intentionally or unintentionally add their own subjective color.

Another view is that, in Chinese semantics, "rumor" is more pejorative, and is often not based on facts, but rather imaginary or deliberately fabricated rumors based on subjective will, and the act of creating such rumors is called "rumor-mongering", and the act of spreading such rumors is called "rumor-mongering". The act of creating such rumors is called "rumor-mongering", and the act of spreading such rumors is called "rumor-mongering". Because rumors are not based on facts, there is no way to talk about their authenticity, and rumors are often exposed by true information.

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