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when typhoon bebejia affected shanghai, a rumor spread online that "some people in shanghai were blown down by the typhoon." on the evening of september 17, the paper reporter learned from the shanghai police that after investigation, eight people who fabricated and spread the rumor were punished according to law.

on september 16, the police found during an online patrol that someone had posted a message that "a typhoon blew down residents of a residential area in shanghai" and attached a video of a person falling from a building. after verification, the video showed that someone in another province or city committed suicide by jumping off a building. some lawbreakers, in order to gain traffic, made up the location of the incident as pudong, minhang, qingpu, etc. in shanghai, and posted it online, causing panic among the masses and causing adverse social impact.

after further investigation, the police arrested the persons involved in fabricating and spreading false information. according to their confession, hua mouwu, niu mou, wang moulun, gu mou, and liu mouqi saw the above-mentioned video of falling from a building online. without knowing the location of the incident and the cause of the fall, they fabricated and published false information that people in the city were blown down by the typhoon without verification. they exaggerated the location of the incident and described it as pudong, minhang, qingpu and other places in the city, and published it through online groups. wang mouqing, pan moutao, qu mou and others participated in the spread of information through subjective speculation without verifying the authenticity of the information.

at present, five offenders, including hua mouwu, niu mou, wang moulun, gu mou, and liu mouqi, have been detained by the police in accordance with the law, and three people, including wang mouqing, have been given administrative penalties such as warnings. at the same time, the above offenders were ordered to clarify the truth online.