中国社交媒体打破沉默也带来杂音_时事

中国社交媒体打破沉默也带来杂音

While information is now easier to come by, hard facts are not. The fragmented sources onsocial media are bewildering; some offer solid reporting, but others can be subjective andinaccurate. It is difficult to tell which are which. Advanced technology has provided an escapefrom the censorship. But we are at risk of replacing silence with indecipherable noise. It issometimes difficult to believe anything unless you see it with your own eyes or hear it fromsomeone you trust.

虽然如今人们可以更容易地获取信息，但得知真相并不容易。社交媒体上分散的信息来源让人眼花缭乱;有些提供扎实可靠的报道，还有些可能是出于主观想法的，或者是不准确的。很难分辨这些信息的真假。先进的技术提供了逃避审查的方法。但我们面临一种危险：沉默被打破时，取而代之的是各种难以分辨的嘈杂声。有时候很难相信任何信息，除非亲眼见到或者从信任的人那里听到。

And silence has a way of coming back. Three days after the explosions, some popular postsseemed to have been deleted. A Weibo message recording the explosion, which had beenposted by a nearby resident on the evening it happened, had somehow disappeared into thinair. The authorities have arrested some people who posted online, accusing them of“scamming. Hundreds of social media accounts have been shut down on the grounds thatthey had been used for “spreading rumour.