Thai Nguyen is determined to prevent fake news, bad news, and toxic news on social platforms.

During the days of floods, central and local press agencies have proactively updated and disseminated the latest information on rain, flood situations and weather and natural disaster forecasts.

The press agencies have promptly disseminated the direction and management of all levels and sectors in response and recovery with the motto "human life is above all", contributing to thoroughly minimizing the loss of life and property of the people. In addition, the Thai Nguyen Provincial Source Information System has effectively promoted its strength in communication work at the grassroots level.

The content "Hey everyone, Nui Coc Lake Dike Break" with pictures of a dike break in another locality, posted on a Facebook group called "BEAT THAI NGUYEN".

However, besides positive information, there is still a lot of unverified information, false information, causing misunderstanding in public opinion, confusion among the people, affecting the work of disaster prevention, control and search and rescue in the province.

In the face of the above situation, the Department of Information and Communications has coordinated with the Provincial Police, the Police of districts and cities to promptly verify and strictly handle cases of false information about the rain and flood situation in Thai Nguyen. Notably, on September 10, 2024, on the social network Facebook, Mr. Truong Nguyen T, permanent resident of Quan Trieu ward, Thai Nguyen city, shared and set the content to public "Hey everyone, Nui Coc Lake Dike Break" with pictures of the dike break in another locality, on the Facebook group named "BEAT THAI NGUYEN".

At the meeting with the authorities, Mr. T reported that when he posted the post, he was not fully aware of the legal regulations when using social networks, and this was his first violation. He requested the authorities to consider reducing the penalty for the violation. During the process of handling the case, Mr. T honestly reported, cooperated well with the authorities, and promptly removed the incorrect information.

Mr. Truong Nguyen T was invited to work by the authorities. Photo: Thu Huong

On September 12, the Inspectorate of the Department of Information and Communications issued a decision to administratively sanction Mr. Truong Nguyen T for the act of "Providing, sharing information, forgery, false information" violating the regulations on responsibility for using social networks as prescribed in Point a, Clause 1, Article 101 of Decree No. 15/2021/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government regulating administrative sanctions in the fields of Post, Telecommunications, Radio Frequency, Information Technology and Electronic Transactions.

In addition, after being reminded, some cases promptly wrote a commitment, removed the information, and publicly apologized and corrected the information on their personal social media accounts.

The functional agencies of Thai Nguyen province request the people to be extremely vigilant, identify fake news, false news and not post or share unverified information. Cases of providing false information, affecting the work of natural disaster prevention and control, causing panic in public opinion will be strictly punished by the authorities according to regulations.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/thai-nguyen-cuong-quyet-ngan-chan-tin-gia-tin-xau-doc-tren-nen-tang-mang-xa-hoi-post312289.html