2026 "E-Rise to Refute Rumors, Clear and Clear with Me" Online Rumor Refuting Salon was held in Suzhou

On the morning of September 29, the 2026 "E-Rumor Refuting, Qinglang Is Me" Internet Rumor Refuting Salon (Season 3) and the themed event of "Qinglang Suwang·Protect Enterprises and Safe Business" were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Di Duohua, Director of the Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center of the Cyberspace Administration of China; Yang Liqun, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Provincial Party Committee; Shen Zhidong, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, Director of the Propaganda Department and Deputy Mayor of the Suzhou Municipal Government attended the event and delivered speeches.

The event pointed out that as an important part of network ecological governance, online rumor refuting is not only an effective means to correctly guide and respond to public opinion, but also an important measure to optimize the business network environment and protect high-quality economic development. It is necessary to fulfill our mission and responsibilities, improve the joint rumor refutation system, coordinate and promote all aspects of rumor monitoring, discovery, rumor refutation, and combat, rely on linkage mechanisms at all levels, and comprehensively build a large-scale rumor refutation work pattern with top-down connectivity, regional coordination, and multi-party participation. Focusing on protecting enterprises and ensuring business safety, and building a solid barrier to refuting enterprise-related rumors, cyberspace departments at all levels should guide and help enterprises to make good use of rumor refuting means to protect their legitimate rights and interests, give full play to the role of local rumor refuting mechanisms and rumor refuting platforms, and further improve the speed of verification and refutation of enterprise-related rumors. Adhere to integrity and innovation, create a diversified co-governance pattern, rely on various Internet-savvy and down-to-earth forms of carriers, continuously enhance the dissemination, cohesion, and influence of online rumor refutation, encourage diverse subjects to participate in online rumor refutation, and form a strong synergy of governments, enterprises, platforms, and netizens working in the same direction.

The theme of this salon is "Clear the Suzhou Network, Protect Enterprises and Businesses", and use Suzhou Embroidery, a national intangible cultural heritage, as the concrete carrier. The three major chapters of the embroidery needlework are "Leading the Thread to Determine the Pulse", "One Needle to Break the Fog" and "Thousands of Needles to Weave the Net". The chapter "Leading the Lead and Setting the Pulse·Su Yun Qingfeng" focuses on publicity and mobilization. The team of Yuan Xiaoliang, a famous Pingtan expert, performed refutation of rumors based on five cases including the name change of "Suzhou Chao". The team of Jin Qin of the Changzhou Rumor Refutation Alliance taught the four-step rumor refutation method of "Looking, hearing, asking, and knowing" in the online rumor refutation open class "The Truth Is Always There"; the top ten brands of Jiangsu's online rumor refutation were released on-site, and Suzhou's "Humble Government Asking the Truth" immersive online and offline integrated experience rumor refutation promotion IP was launched. The chapter "Breaking the fog with one shot, helping enterprises and protecting businesses" uses a panoramic video and the sitcom "Rumors Can't Lead" to show the joint handling process of multiple government departments after catering, agricultural products, and manufacturing companies encountered rumors; the media, self-media and business representatives conducted exchanges around the management of enterprise-related rumors, and released a list of hundreds of Jiangsu enterprises directly linked to the acceptance and disposal of online infringement reports. In the chapter "Thousands of Knitting Networks·Collaborative Governance", the Suzhou Internet Enterprise Assistance Service Center shared its collaborative governance experience with the municipal public security, Internet courts, market supervision and other departments. Journalists and Internet experts who participated in the "Internet Media and 'Rumor Refuting Man' Look at Suzhou Enterprises" activity divided shared the visit and released the "Initiative for Media and Enterprises to Jointly Build a Clear Business Network Environment"; the second batch of national "Direct Contact Points for Enterprise-related Network Rumor Refutation Work" was released on-site and certificates were issued; the 2026 Jiangsu Network Reporting and Rumor Refutation Typical Case Collection and Promotion Campaign was launched.

At the flag handover ceremony, the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee handed over the national online rumor refuting salon flag of "E-Rise to Refute Rumors, Clear and Clear with Me" to the fourth season organizer, the Cyberspace Administration of Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee. The event ended successfully with the original song and dance "Internet Information Long Song" performed by front-line representatives of Suzhou Internet Information, Public Security and Enterprise Assistance Services. From Yibin, the "Capital City of the Yangtze River", to Urumqi, "at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains", and then to Suzhou, the "Garden City", the "E-Run Rumor Refuting, Clear and Clear" Online Rumor Refuting Salon continues to pass the baton of online rumor refuting and gathers the joint force of rumor refuting shared by the whole society.

This event was guided by the Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, hosted by the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, and hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee. Approximately 200 representatives from relevant departments of the central and state agencies, provincial cyberspace offices, direct reporting points of the National Network Rumor Refutation Linkage Mechanism, "Direct Contact Points for Enterprise-related Network Rumor Refutation Work", as well as news media, website platforms, enterprises and other units participated in the event.