Punish 2 cases of posting false information about the arrangement and merger of provinces and cities

(CLO) On December 12, 2024, information from the Internal Political Security Department, Nghe An Provincial Police said that the unit has just issued a decision to administratively sanction 02 cases of posting false information about the arrangement and merger of provinces and cities across the country.

Accordingly, the two cases punished are Mr. LVT (born in 1988, residing in Vinh city), a reporter, and Mr. NVM (born in 1988, residing in Tan Ky town, Nghe An province), a freelance worker.

2 cases of false information about the province-city merger plan nationwide were detected, picture 1 — The content posted on personal Facebook is false.

Previously, on November 26, 2024, the NVM Facebook account posted an article with the content: "This is the information about the province merger that I downloaded online. I don't know if it is correct" with images said to be of 31 new administrative units based on the arrangement and merger of provinces and cities across the country.

On November 28, Mr. LVT's Facebook account D.C. posted similar images with the content "Plan to merge agencies from central to local levels".

2 cases of false information about the province-city merger plan nationwide were detected. Image 2 — Police work with violations

After conducting verification, the Internal Political Security Department summoned LVT and NVM to work to clarify their actions.

During the process of working with the police, both admitted to all violations, although the information was not verified, they posted it on their personal Facebook in order to increase interaction. Notably, NVM's Facebook account has a blue tick with more than 80,000 followers.

The behavior of these 02 cases was determined to violate Point a, Clause 1, Article 101, Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government stipulating administrative sanctions for violations in postal services, telecommunications, radio frequencies, information technology and electronic transactions. The Internal Political Security Department of Nghe An Police has issued a decision to impose an administrative fine of 5 million VND for each case.

2 cases of false information about the province-city merger plan nationwide were detected, picture 3. — Violators post correction information on social networks

In recent days, before the information about the plan to rearrange the apparatus in the political system, there has been false and inaccurate information, causing public confusion. Notably, on social networks, a list of provincial administrative units that will be split and merged has been circulating. This list includes columns of information about the old provinces that will be split and merged; the name of the new province; the location of the provincial capital; the area of the split and merged area and the total new area; the population of each split and merged unit and the total population of the new administrative unit; data on the total product in the area, etc.

This is false information. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a document requesting the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with relevant agencies to review and handle the dissemination of false information related to the merger of provinces and centrally-run cities, causing public confusion and affecting social stability.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/xu-phat-2-truong-hop-dang-thong-tin-sai-su-that-ve-viec-sap-xep-sap-nhap-tinh-thanh-tren-ca-nuoc-post325150.html