Distributors of fake news such as, “If you get a vaccine, you get dementia.”

Fake news (Fake) and fact (Fact) is a big difference. [사진 프리픽]

Amid the vaccination of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the police have formed a dedicated team to eradicate the vaccine-related’fake news’ and intensively crack down.

The Busan National Police Agency announced on the 22nd that it is starting to crack down on intensive crackdowns as it is causing public anxiety due to fake news (false manipulation information), although public interest is increasing as the vaccination time approaches. Busan Police has formed a team dedicated to countering false manipulation information in the Cyber ​​Safety Division. There are 5 team members, divided into 4 during the day and 1 at night, and they are constantly cracked.

The target of the crackdown is the act of making fake news by discussing domestic and foreign vaccine comparisons and preferential vaccination targets, and distributing it to local communities, mom cafes, and personal internet broadcasting. Of course, the act of distributing false information without scientific verification by borrowing the form of interviewing a foreign expert through a single media broadcast (such as YouTube) is also subject to crackdown.

Members of the Air Force’s 6th Search and Rescue Flight Squadron are binding a vaccine model to the Chinook helicopter (CH-47D) at the ‘2nd Pan-Government Integrated Simulation Training for Vaccine Distribution’ held at the Heliport of the Special Warfare Command in Icheon City, Gyeonggi-do on the afternoon of the 19th.[사진공동취재단]

The police are currently investigating the distributors of three fake news posts about vaccines, saying, “I made a vaccine using the lung tissue of an abortion,” “It is an experimental poison,” “If you get a vaccine, you get dementia.” The police are planning to intensively monitor private broadcasting platforms and punish not only the first producers of fake news, but also those who distribute it in the middle.

In Busan, it is an analysis of the city of Busan that fake news such as “Pfizer for young people, water vaccine for the elderly, concealment of deaths after vaccination,” and all vaccines scheduled for domestic vaccination are made in China.

Earlier, the Busan police arrested 10 criminals who had spread fake news related to the COVID-19 quarantine from last year to the present and filed a criminal case, and notified 67 posts to related agencies to delete and block them.

‘Fake news’ that an employee of a large business partner in Ulsan was tested positive for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) spread on February 22 last year, and the police went to an internal investigation. The picture is for the fake news. [연합뉴스]

Producing and distributing fake news may be subject to imprisonment or fines pursuant to Article 70 (2) of the Information and Communication Network Act (timely defamation of false facts) and Article 47 (2) of the Framework Act on Telecommunications (False communications for profit purposes).

A police official said, “The act of producing and distributing fake news related to vaccination is an illegal act that causes public unrest and social confusion, so we will have a regular response system centered on a team dedicated to the City Police Agency.”

Busan = Reporter Hwang Sun-yoon [email protected]