FAKE NEWS AS A THREAT TO MEDIA SECURITY IN CHINA

Abstract

Modern mass media act as a guide in the flow of significant events. However, the presentation of this content is not always based on reputable sources or has a reliable character. The threat to media security in China is created through the publication and coverage of fake news, through which attackers try to destabilize the political situation in the country, provoke panic and popular unrest, involve a gullible audience in criminal machinations, sabotage or achieve other negative effects. Cyber and media security are mutually correlative: when there is a communicative intentional destructurization of the media environment, negative phenomena occur in the online sphere (users begin to trust scammers, provide them with their personal data, ignore digital hygiene). If cybersecurity is violated by intruders, then news information resources are at risk, through which fake news, rumors, distorted or unreliable data begin to actively spread. As a result, disinformation by fake news is becoming widespread, with the maximum number of publications and their reposts concentrated on social networks, where some authors, due to their desire to intentionally destabilize the ideology and beliefs of society, publish fake news, while others, without appropriate competencies, interpret and disseminate false information as true, which is also why they harm media security.