First look at the three letters (segments) of interest (sub)
- High temperature can kill the virus, which can make the patient recover from fever above 39.6 degrees.
- Bats are most afraid of high temperature. Please suck the steam that boiled off the water to detoxify.
- Dating in love can prevent new coronavirus pneumonia.
Perhaps you just laughed and even rolled your eyes. How do you think such information can be believed? Just seeing this information is an insult to IQ, but this is my epidemic in Tencent. The information that the platform “very authentic checks” sees, of course, these three pieces of information are marked as rumors, indicating that someone really believes, and there are many people who believe.
▲ rumors follow the hot spot and never relax
Honestly, this more authentic verification platform has recently become my source of joy. Although the continuous epidemic information makes people feel heavy, the rumors like paragraphs above really admire the imagination of the rumors, such as “the helicopter The plane broke through the blockade. The movie went directly to Wuhan. “Sorry, the movie really didn’t dare to do that.
In these rumors, the prescriptions for the prevention of new coronavirus are very important: boy urine, houttuynia cordata, garlic with rock sugar …
House explosion, car explosion, do n’t ask, just use it.Disinfection caused by alcohol while cooking or smoking.
There are also some rumors that are well-intentioned, such as “Don’t play with snow on snowy days, you will be infected with the new coronavirus!”, “Walking will get pneumonia.” I can only say that in order to persuade everyone not to go out, rumormakers have worked very hard. .
Academician Zhong Nanshan is also the traffic burden in the rumor of the epidemic. He will be connected to Bai Yansong for a while. It is recommended that the people of the country be isolated at home for two weeks, and then go to the airport to meet the CEO of a drug company.
▲ Academician Zhong is very busy
Although there are rumors every day, this epidemic can be said to be a feast for rumors. The number of rumors has grown exponentially. “Making a rumor and opening a rumor and breaking a leg” is not enough to describe the difficulty of rumor rumor. To be precise, it should be “Rumors are spread for thousands of miles, but no one knows them.”
▲ There are nearly 100,000 unreliable messages forwarded, and only 20 clarified Weibo retweets. See the watermark for details.
Of course, in an era of fake news spreading across the globe, no matter how clever people are, it’s inevitable that the rumors will be repeated. There are several reasons:
The truth is boring and the rumors are interesting
As I said earlier, all kinds of rumors are very readable. The rumor maker may be more knowledgeable about communication principles than any big V and the media. All the rumors are sensational, break through common sense, be in the middle, and be dramatic Characteristics, such as “Don’t eat freshwater fish! Confirm faecal transmission, wash the toilet in many places in fish ponds”, “New Coronary Pneumonia Virus is an artificial virus”, etc. The death of celebrities is also a favorite material for rumors. In this epidemic, it was reflected as Celebrity infections, such as “Zhong Nanshan infected with Wuhan pneumonia”.
Furthermore, today, fragmented reading is popular, and rumors with only a few words are also very appealing to contemporary people.
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In contrast, a serious statement of objective facts can be much more boring, and the sentence “Shuanghuanglian can inhibit new pneumonia” was finished. Later, when major media and institutions rumored, they had to explain it in detail in long texts In principle, rumors are not only broken legs, but also broken mouth. is that useful? Anyway, Shuanghuanglian is out of stock so far, the owner of Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid exceeded 10 billion yuan within 2 minutes after the A-share market opened on February 3.
Whether it was word-of-mouth offline or popular on social networks, people are always inclined to share interesting information, and rumors are often difficult to please. Friends who have been kicked or ignored in the family group are believed to be friends. understand.
As for why rumors can always be renovated, the truth is simple, -mit-science “> When you are not bound by reality, naturally you can let your imagination fly.
Why do rumors run fast?
Rumours can spread quickly. In addition to creativity, they also capture people’s psychology.
Uncertainty fuels the spread of rumors -When we don’t fully understand the situation or the reason, rumors often arise. In this epidemic, there were too many uncertainties about the nature and transmission of the virus, the situation after Wuhan was closed, and the distribution of medical resources and living materials, which gave rumors to the soil.
The more anxious, the easier it is to spread rumors -Uncertainty usually breeds anxiety.We are eager to get relevant information. We ca n’t help but scan Weibo and circle of friends, and even Wechat chat history can be a source of information. When hunger is not a hunger, rumors are more likely to enter.
The more important the rumors are, the easier it will be to spread them. -American social psychologists Gordon Alport and Leo Postman mention in their book “The Psychology of Rumors” “The importance of content and the ambiguity of details” are the key to the spread of rumors.
If you look at all kinds of rumors, you will find that they are always vague in detail, but because they involve important content that people care about, they are quickly spread. No matter where the city is closed, where infected people run around, or how to prevent infection, they have developed New drugs, although the rumors have not mentioned the principle of prevention or the mechanism of action of the drug, do not prevent people from rushing to spread them, because this information is relevant to us.
Legacy only spreads rumors—The phrase “don’t believe rumors, don’t spread rumors” is not very accurate. Knowing that it is a rumor, naturally it will not spread. However, if it is unfair to accuse the communicator of ignorance and ignorance, when the authoritative media released the news of Shuanghuanglian against new pneumonia without any verification, the ordinary people certainly chose to believe it.
On the other hand, although many studies have shown that rumors of negative news are more widely spread than positive ones, specific to this epidemic, there may be too many bad news. When magic drugs appear, people are more inclined to believe that, except In addition to the credibility of the publisher, it is also related to the rumors that cater to people’s psychology. “Wu He Zhi Zhong” has a classic explanation of this kind of psychology:
The masses have never longed for truth, and they will walk away in the face of unsuitable evidence. If fallacy is tempting to them, they are more willing to worship it. Those who can provide them with illusions can easily become their masters.
