Share of Chinese supporting social media bans during a crisis to stop fake news 2019

According to a survey conducted by Ipsos in June 2019, over 70 percent of respondents in China agreed that temporarily cutting off social media platforms is acceptable to stop the spread of false information at times of crisis, with 22 percent strongly agreeing to the method.The background of the survey was a temporary social media ban by the government in Sri Lanka in April 2019 in the wake of a fatal terrorist attack.

根据益普索（Ipsos）于2019年6月进行的一项调查，超过70%的中国受访者认为，在危机时刻，暂时切断社交媒体平台以遏制虚假信息的传播是可接受的，其中22%的受访者对该方法表示强烈赞同。此次调查的背景是，在2019年4月斯里兰卡政府因恐怖袭击事件而实施的临时社交媒体禁令。