報告顯示 食品健康成我國謠言重災區

The majority of fake stories shared on the internet throughout China involve food safety or health advice, an online information verification team set up by tech giant Tencent said last Wednesday.

科技巨頭騰訊成立的網絡信息查證團隊於上週三表示，國內互聯網上分享的虛假消息大部分涉及食品安全或健康建議。

Fact Check, a platform that analyzes online rumors, released a list of the top 10 online rumors that duped Chinese netizens since April last year. Eight related to people's health - especially the safety of food and medicine.

網絡謠言分析平臺“較真”發佈了自去年4月以來欺騙國內網民的10大網絡謠言榜單。其中8條涉及人體健康，尤其是食品藥品安全。

In February, for example, a video that included claims that seaweed that contained plastic was being sold in China made the rounds on the internet.

例如，今年2月，聲稱含有塑料成分的紫菜正在國內銷售的一段視頻在網上廣爲流傳。

The video was quickly proved false by the Center for Food Safety Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Beijing, according to the platform, yet the seaweed industry in Fujian still saw a nearly 100 million yuan loss.

據較真平臺介紹，北京市食品安全監控和風險評估中心很快就此視頻進行了闢謠，但福建的紫菜產業仍遭受了近1億元的損失。

"Netizens are easily attracted by health information online and like to forward it to friends or family members," said Wang Yang, an employee responsible for the platform at Tencent.

騰訊公司該平臺一位名叫汪洋的負責人表示：“網民很容易被網上的健康信息所吸引，並願意將它轉發給朋友或家庭成員。”

The platform also found that people at or over 60 years old had the highest chance of being tricked - as high as 33.8%.

較真平臺還發現，60歲及以上老人受騙機率最高，高達33.8%。

"To prevent older netizens from being duped by fake information, we started to cooperate with food and medicine administrations this year, hoping to post authorized responses and verify the information in a timely manner," Wang said.

汪洋說道：“爲了防止老年網民被虛假信息所欺騙，我們今年已經開始與食品和藥品管理部門合作，希望可以發佈權威信息，並且以一種及時的方式進行覈實。”