When floods have hit the Central region in recent days, local authorities at all levels of Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa provinces have immediately taken action, mobilizing maximum means, human resources, and material resources to rescue people when the flood is high and provide relief immediately after the flood recedes with all their highest capacity and responsibility.
Of course, there will certainly be timely rescue in one place after another, due to the impact of objective, force majeure factors such as complex terrain, isolation, high floods, cut communication...
During storms and floods - people in direct disaster and relatives and villagers also have no other right but the right to ask for help from others.
When their lives, those of their relatives and neighbors are threatened, when their families are isolated in the middle of the sea, when their phones are busy in the short moments of communication, people have to "call for a little more attention" and respond faster, which is also common practice.
However, the reality of floods in the Central region in recent days shows that the line between " just recovery" and "assisting fake news" is sometimes fragile to scary. And this is what makes the Ministry of Public Security issue urgent warnings.
Because besides the real, tearful and desperate cries, fabricated content and fake images created by AI with an terrible rate of spread have appeared.
These images and information are sometimes created not with the purpose of helping people in distress to "call for more", but to cause confusion, distort the efforts of the government, and disrupt information at a time when all resources must be focused on rescue work.
More dangerously, such fake news spreads faster than official information, faster than the speed of rescue forces. When people are led by excess fear, when the internet is flooded with baseless affirmations about " Thousands of people missing", "no one in the whole commune has been saved" ... the forces at the scene have to spend more time verifying, checking, and dividing flows, instead of focusing on saving people in truly dangerous locations.
Those who take the pain, loss, and damage of their compatriots flooded to make raw materials for toxic, counterfeit products using technology should be condemned and strictly handled by the authorities.
But those who are unintentional, quick-witted, lack verification, lack a little slowness when sharing fake news on social networks or even spread it by word of mouth are also very welcome.
Because just one unverified sharing can confuse hundreds of thousands of people, distract from resource concentration and put unnecessary pressure on rescue forces that are struggling every hour.
In natural disasters, we need kindness, but kindness must go with alertness. We need to share information, but information must be verified from official sources. We need to listen to the cry for help, but we also need to distinguish between the real cry for help and the fake to deceive the community.
In times of trouble, solidarity is not only about sharing food and warm clothes, but also about sharing the right information and doing the right thing. And if he is helpless, can't do anything else, then being silent is also a way to help others!
Millions of arms turn to compatriots affected by storms and floods
Consecutive storms and floods caused by storms have caused many deaths, missing people, and injuries; many houses and production and business establishments have had their roofs blown off and suffered heavy damage. People across the Central and Northern mountainous provinces are struggling day and night to cope with floods and heavy losses in human lives and property that cannot be mentioned...
"A piece of food when hungry is worth a package when full", with the spirit of mutual love that has always been a beautiful image of the Vietnamese people, the Golden Heart Social Charity Fund calls on domestic and foreign philanthropists to join hands to share with people affected by floods to have food, clothing, shelter, students have books to go to school...
The Golden Heart Social Charity Fund would like to sincerely thank the precious feelings of agencies, businesses, and domestic and foreign philanthropists.
Please send any help to: Golden Heart Social Society Fund, No. 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. Phone: 024.39232756. Account number (STK): 113000000758 at Vietinbank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi. STK: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank - Hanoi Branch, STK: 12410001122556 - at BIDV - Hoan Kiem Branch. Or scan the following QR code:
