| Developers: | Management concerning a cyberspace of China (Cyberspace Administration of China) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | August, 2020 |
| Branches: | Internet services |
2020: The announcement of United Mumor Debunking Platform - the state application for fight against rumors
On August 31, 2020 it became known that public administration concerning a cyberspace of China (Cyberspace Administration of China, CAC) started the application for smartphones which as it is supposed, will allow to achieve success at deployment of a campaign for fight against misinformation on the Internet. Innovation received the name United Mumor Debunking Platform.
United Mumor Debunking Platform includes several mini-programs which support is implemented in the services, most popular in China, including WeChat from Tencent Holdings, Alipay from Ant Group and also the search system from Baidu. Development of CAC allows users to check quickly rumors on the Internet, providing access to the relevant articles from official media, to statements of state bodies and different industry experts.
The solution United Mumor Debunking Platform is focused on a set scope by that: from the statements connected with health, for example, about communication of tofu with breast cancer to political statements concerning human rights. According to data from the application, the most discussed rumors in July, 2020 concerned false statements about antennas 5G installed in medical masks and how these technologies cause cancer.
The new application marks the last attempt of China to attract a huge number of Internet users whom there are more than 900 million people, to a problem of distribution of false information. Development represents special importance for China against the background of a flow of false information about a pandemic of a coronavirus of COVID-19 and escalation of the conflict between Beijing and Washington.
Development of United Mumor Debunking Platform is provided after in 2018 the Chinese regulator started the website intended for a denial of rumors. Since launch this website received more than 30 thousand messages about expected rumors and published about 9 thousand articles exposing the different misinforming subjects.[1]
Notes
| The site content is translated by machine translation software powered by PROMT. The machine-translated articles are not always perfect and may contain errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. Read original article If you find inaccuracies or errors in the results of machine translation, please write to editor@tadviser.ru. We will make every effort to correct them as soon as possible. |