"Computers are our guns at work." They stare at the screens more than ten hours per day. They search into the infinite information online for a clue. Usually, they work at night. Their mission is to clamp down on online rumors for a healthy Internet.

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They are Internet police. Nowadays, Internet is becoming more and more central to everyone's life. As a result, a massive workload is increasing for those mysterious guys.

Recently, Chinese government arrested many rumormongers, who spread rumors online to obtain ill-gotten gains, leave fear in public or throw mud at their rivals in business. A war against online rumors has begun in China. In order to know more inside dope, our journalists visited an Internet police who has been working in the field for 10 years.     

Blogger Ding: I was destined for an Internet police

Who is Blogger Ding? It's the real name for the deputy of the computing security department in Kaihua Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province.

"I was destined to be an Internet police due to my name. Everyday, I surf the Internet for more than ten hours." Blogger Ding said. 35 years ago, his parents gifted him such a name. Now, he has become a glorious Internet police.

Not long ago, Blogger Ding just uncovered a gossipy case. On July 19^th, a micro blog appeared on the Internet, saying, "my aunt was taken into a room by several traffic policemen because she violated traffic rules. It was shameful that she was beaten by four policemen together with various weapons. Now she has been hospitalized. Dirty bastard!"

"Is there such a thing?" Blogger Ding was confused when seeing the micro blog. At the same time, some netizens also reported the blog as a rumor. The police must check the truth or falsehood as soon as possible, or the news will affect the reputation of Kaihua police.

Supervisors visited hospitals for possible wounded person described in the blog. However, they found nothing. "We screenshot the micro blog immediately to preserve the evidence. Meanwhile, we downloaded the user's profile photo and printed it." Blogger Ding said.

"Then we collected related information via the user's 'following' and 'followers' lists, including the user's acquaintances. Finally, we found the suspect Mr. Zhang."

Zhang admitted she posted the micro blog after she was detained. She explained her uncle caused a traffic death and had to compensate a large amount of money. Thus Zhang posted a fake micro blog out of spite.

"Then Zhang realized her mistake and deleted the micro blog at once. A possible crisis caused by a rumor was relieved." Blogger Ding said.