Beware of fake news and distorted arguments

Taking advantage of sensitive times to sabotage

However, hostile forces at home and abroad have not given up their sabotage plots. They use all means to distort, falsify the truth, slander, disintegrate trust, cause ideological disturbances, create "gaps" to gradually infiltrate bourgeois ideology into cadres, party members and the people. They thoroughly exploit modern media, especially the internet, social networks, and personal blogs to spread wrong views, spread information distorting the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State; slander, fabricate and defame the images of Party and State leaders through the periods, aiming to divide the great national unity bloc, and reduce the trust of all classes of people in the Party and State.

And it has almost become a tradition that before every major political event of the country and the nation, hostile forces seek to sabotage the Party, the State and the cause of building socialism in our country. On the eve of preparing for Party Congresses at all levels, leading up to the 13th National Congress of the Party, on social networking sites, hostile forces and opportunists continuously post a lot of propaganda and distorted information to lower the prestige and revolutionary achievements of our Party and State. The content and methods of their sabotage often focus on the following major issues:

The Nghe An Provincial Party Executive Committee summarizes Party building work during the 12th Congress term. Photo: Dao Tuan

Firstly, on politics. This is the key area that hostile and reactionary forces aim at, aiming to change and distort the Party's viewpoints and political lines and deviate from socialism in our country. By means of exaggerating, distorting, and deepening the shortcomings and limitations of the Party's leadership role, the management and administration of the State and Government, aiming to lower the Party's leadership role over the State and society, directly distorting and denying the documents submitted to the 13th Congress...

Second, in terms of ideology, hostile and reactionary forces focus on destroying the Party's ideological foundation, which is Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought. They focus on spreading arguments that distort and deny Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought.

Third, on organizational and personnel work. They seek to sabotage the organization, the basic method that hostile forces use in the broad democratic activities of the entire people and socio-political organizations. Therefore, before the Party Congresses at all levels and the 13th National Party Congress, they will take advantage of soliciting opinions on the documents submitted to the Congress to attract opposing elements, dissatisfied with the regime, to sign collective petitions, to exert pressure, in order to change the principled issues of our Party. This sinister trick of theirs is to lure and bribe cadres and Party members who show signs of degeneration and corruption to use them as tools to distort and deny the Party's viewpoints and policies.

Illustrated propaganda poster

In addition, hostile forces have taken full advantage of the Internet to spread articles and appeals with distorted and critical content about the Party Congress preparations. The anti-government rhetoric often focuses on defaming and discrediting Party and State leaders. For example, recently, issues related to China's reckless activities in the East Sea, the tragic death of a child at Gateway School, or the fight against corruption... have shown a "revolution" being vigorously carried out by hostile forces and bad elements in the country with a large number of articles posted on social networks.

The main goal is to create psychology and public opinion at home and abroad to sabotage Vietnam through the Internet environment. In addition, they fabricate stories about conflicts, factions, and internal fighting to cause division and sabotage the great unity bloc...

Extremists with patriotic guise

To increase the persuasiveness of these arguments, they built websites and fan pages (buying high automatic traffic) to post fake documents with secret stamps to fabricate and defame the Party and State leaders with thrilling stories, and they also organized so-called discussions, quoting a number of characters who claimed to be "Professors", "Doctors", "Lawyers", "scholars", "political and social researchers"... under the guise of "patriots"... but in fact, they were a number of extremist anti-communists overseas and disgruntled, opportunistic political figures in the country commenting and evaluating the personnel work of the Party and State in the upcoming Congress. Others thoroughly took advantage of the development of science and technology to create fake evidence to prove their distorted arguments. But in fact, those were just "cut and paste" images through photoshop technology.

Beware of bad and toxic information on social networks. Image is for illustration purposes only

In Nghe An, the authorities have discovered and removed many websites, panpages, facebook pages, and youtube channels with content that distorts the policies of the Party and State, exaggerates incidents arising at the grassroots level, incites marches and protests, complicates political security, order, and social safety... Through monitoring and fighting, the authorities have prosecuted and tried many opposing subjects who have committed acts of propaganda and sabotage against the Party and State with strict sentences before the law such as: Nguyen Viet Dung, Le Dinh Luong, Nguyen Nang Tinh, Hoang Duc Binh...

Currently, some bad elements in the area are still taking advantage of the Internet to spread propaganda, defame the regime, and defame the Party and State leaders, especially during the preparation period for Party Congresses at all levels.

The main reason for their increasing sabotage activities against our country before the Party Congresses is to destabilize the internal leadership, sow doubts and suspicions among themselves, and reduce the people's trust in the Party and the regime. The "rewinding and rehashing" of old sabotage issues, combined with their new sinister forms of information expression, is only aimed at the ultimate goal of carrying out the "peaceful evolution" plot, conducting a "color revolution" to transform the Vietnamese political regime along the Western trajectory like the "rose revolution" in Georgia, the "orange revolution" in Ukraine, the "Tulip revolution" in Kyrgyzstan, etc.

Subject Hoang Thanh Huyen spread false information about "flesh-eating bacteria" on Facebook at the Quang Binh Provincial Police Department. Photo: Van Hoa Newspaper

Thus, the sabotage of hostile forces on the eve of Party Congresses at all levels will be more fierce in the coming time. Therefore, we need to raise our vigilance, proactively fight, and defeat all their sinister and dangerous plots and tricks, contributing to ensuring the success of Party Congresses at all levels. Therefore, proactively identifying and fighting to defeat all sabotage tricks of hostile forces on the eve of Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 13th National Party Congress is one of the extremely important tasks. We need to be vigilant against the arguments that sabotage the upcoming Party Congress, especially the propaganda, distortions, and slanders spread by hostile forces on the Internet.