Nghe An Party Committee is a large Party Committee, with 1,429 grassroots Party organizations, more than 196,000 Party members, accounting for 3.65% of the total number of Party members in the country. This is a core, important team, if effectively promoted, it will be a powerful force to spread good, positive information and images; at the same time, criticize and fight against bad things and deviant manifestations. Aware of that importance, the entire Party Committee has had many good and creative ways of doing things with the motto "taking the beauty, eliminating the ugliness", through "real people, real events", not embellishing, not embellishing, not blackening; avoiding counterproductive or "just for show" situations, thereby no longer convincing the community's attention.
At the Party Committee of the Agencies Bloc of Nghe An province, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee launched the writing contest "Bright examples around us" for the first time, attracting the participation of a large number of cadres and party members in the Bloc, creating a strong spread through thousands of likes and shares of cadres and party members in the Bloc on information channels, especially social networks. There are entries attracting tens of thousands of views and likes such as: "Female soldier on the budget collection front" (39,652 views); "Beautiful flower in the field of collective economy and cooperatives" (36,855 views); "A leader who is truly close to the people, understands the people, respects the people, and works for the people" (27,551 views)...
The articles participating in the contest are selected from the grassroots; the characters from real life are friends, comrades, colleagues through the amateur pen are also comrades, colleagues of mine. Although no one is a perfect person, their moral qualities, lifestyle, political courage, experience, leadership skills, management and consulting skills to perform political tasks well have created a fresh, beautiful image of the cadres and party members in the Provincial Agencies Bloc.
“This is an effective demonstration of the motto “using beauty to eliminate ugliness”, using positive information to push back bad and toxic information on social networks,” affirmed comrade Chu Ba Long - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Agencies of Nghe An province.
Leaders and cadres of all levels of the Youth Union in Nghe An always keep in mind the motto: Consider social networks as the main front in the work of educating traditions, propaganda and agitation of the Youth Union. The Provincial Youth Union website, and the addresses: Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube of Nghe An youth are maintained and operated effectively in many forms. The Nghe An Provincial Youth Union Fanpage on Facebook posts about 3,000 news and articles each year, currently has more than 83,000 followers, 15,000 shares of articles; 400 clips and videos of activities of the young generation of Uncle Ho's hometown have been posted on Youtube and Tiktok channels.
In particular, since 2018, Nghe An Provincial Youth Union has launched the Campaign "One good news every day, one beautiful story every week", with the motto "use beauty to eliminate ugliness". The campaign aims to propagate, educate, and orient cadres, union members, and youth in the province towards noble values, living with revolutionary ideals, having a strong will, having ambitions and aspirations to rise up, living beautifully, living usefully, being responsible for oneself, family and society; contributing to creating a trend, a tendency to post and share positive information on social networks, building a healthy social network environment for the comprehensive development of youth.
On that basis, the Provincial Youth Union has given specific instructions to all levels of the Youth Union to propagate and mobilize Youth Union officials, members and youth to post and share good news and beautiful stories on their personal and organizational social networking sites; information with good purpose, direction, criticality and a highly constructive spirit.
To help students behave properly on social networks, Nguyen Nguyet Anh - Vinh University said: Vinh University Youth Union has proposed a solution to help students access online information with a 4-step model: Building solid, official foundations for students to rely on (Fanpage: Vinh University Youth Union, Vinh University Student Association), building 5 clear information orientations for websites (Academic calendar, school policies; major national holidays; major political events of the Party and State; competitions for young people; beautiful stories of life and examples of good young people studying); always pay attention to innovating and creating forms of posting information; once a month during the school year, the Standing Committee of the University Youth Union and the Secretariat of the University Student Association organize direct exchanges with Union and Association officials to grasp information and promptly correct when students access bad and toxic information on social networks.
“The Youth Union at all levels regularly provides timely information to young people, especially on sensitive issues and hot events so that young people can understand and perceive the true nature of the matter, without ambiguity or hesitation, creating a solid foundation for fighting, refuting, “diluting” and “dissolving” false and hostile arguments; especially through strengthening official channels that widely cover social networking platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Tiktok, etc.) so that people can correctly identify through comparing and contrasting, selecting information on the same event reflected on cyberspace. “Apply the “5K” rule (Don’t believe right away – Don’t rush to like – Don’t add – Don’t incite – Don’t rush to share), Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union, President of the Vietnam Youth Union of Nghe An province Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy said.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province is also a very active unit in cyberspace. Since 2019, the Nghe An Front Fanpage on Facebook has been established and currently has 126,000 likes and 135,000 followers. In addition to the provincial page, the Fatherland Front system in Nghe An has 481 Fanpage pages, including 21 district-level Fatherland Front Fanpage pages and 460 commune-level Fatherland Front Fanpage pages and 3,804 Front Work Committees with Facebook pages. Through the Fanpage pages, beautiful images have been spread, especially the activities of the Front at all levels in the province; actively criticizing and fighting against bad, toxic, negative information; at the same time, it is a forum to interact and listen to the opinions of all classes of people in the fastest way.
According to the leader of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, in general, the team of cadres and party members in the province have closely followed the situation, grasped the thoughts and public opinions in society to promptly provide official information, orient public opinion, regularly share good information, spread examples of good people and good deeds to "use beauty to eliminate ugliness", react quickly, flexibly, share, and explain to the people to understand the true nature of the problem, and recognize the tricks, plots, and schemes of hostile forces.
At the same time, cadres and party members actively participated in the political writing contest on protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints. In 2023, the whole province received 4,060 entries. The contest received the participation of a large number of cadres, party members and people from all walks of life in the province. Many entries were of good quality, with profound content, vivid presentation, meaningful illustrations... becoming a rich source of materials with high combativeness, directly serving the work of agencies and units in the province in the propaganda work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints.
The work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints in the new situation must be placed in the context of always proactively grasping the situation in the locality and in cyberspace to promptly detect sabotage activities of subjects to serve propaganda and struggle work.
With that motto, in Nghi Loc district, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the District Steering Committee 35 have done a good job of grasping the situation, promptly detecting and directing handling. Accordingly, from 2019 to now, they have coordinated with the relevant agencies to remove 33 news and articles with bad and toxic content; reported the deletion of the account "Ugly Vietnamese" of the reactionary Phan Cong Hai; neutralized the activities of 1 subject participating in the organization "The Government of the Republic of Vietnam in exile" who regularly used Facebook to post and share a number of articles with distorted content and slandering the Party and the State.
At the same time, from 2019 to present, the functional sectors of Nghi Loc district have coordinated to arrest and handle 12 cases, including 1 reactionary subject, 11 cases related to high-tech crimes; administratively sanctioned 2 subjects, including 1 subject with the act of "Impersonating organizations and individuals and spreading fake information, false information infringing on the rights and legitimate interests of organizations and individuals" and 1 subject with the act of "posting false information, insulting the reputation and honor of State agencies".
To achieve the above results, comrade Nguyen Dinh Nam - Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghi Loc District Party Committee shared that one of the experiences is to do a good job of grasping the locality, promptly leading, directing, closely coordinating with relevant units to report, disseminate, and orient public opinion; proactively coordinate and handle urgent, prominent issues arising from the grassroots.
At the same time, to enhance responsibility in using social networks, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee is currently developing and preparing to issue new regulations on speaking, providing information to the press and handling information posted and broadcast in the press, information reflected on social networks of State administrative agencies in the province. Accordingly, Nghe An is almost the first locality in the country to include the content of handling information reflected on social networks in the above regulations, in which, clearly specifying the responsibilities and handling procedures of heads of State administrative agencies, cadres, civil servants and public employees when there is information reflected on social networks related to the performance of tasks and public duties.
Comrade Nguyen Ba Hao - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Information and Communications said: In case, if the reflection on social networks is correct, then the person with the wrongdoing posted or broadcast on social networks must be dealt with; on the contrary, if the reflection is incorrect, has signs of distortion, insulting the subject posted or broadcast, the person posting or broadcasting must be responsible. Thereby, strengthening the responsibility of cadres, party members, and people in the need to consider and carefully consider when posting images, videos, and articles on social networks about individuals, organizations, and units, ensuring the true nature, avoiding distortion and defamation.
Along with that, in the work of training and fostering cadres, Nghe An also pays great attention to equipping knowledge on protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting and refuting erroneous and hostile viewpoints. Master Ngo Ba Cuong - Head of the Party Building Department, Nghe An Provincial Political School said: "The role and responsibility of the team of political theory lecturers is to identify, research and summarize practices. Through the teaching process, students will have knowledge, scientific arguments and experience to have enough capacity to identify and fight against erroneous and distorted voices of hostile forces.
At the provincial level, once a week, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department reports on public opinion, press information, and the ideological situation of cadres, party members, and the masses to report to the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, promptly directing the handling and orientation of practical issues, avoiding bad guys taking advantage of distortion and sabotage.
Through monthly press conferences, leaders of functional agencies and responsible officials are assigned to regularly meet and exchange information with reporters, journalists, and artists in the area, making an important contribution to doing well the ideological work, propaganda, and fighting to protect the Party's ideological foundation.
Direct and orient press agencies to increase news, articles and reports on protecting the Party's ideological foundation, in which the two main press agencies of the province, Nghe An Newspaper and Nghe An Radio and Television Station, regularly maintain the column "Protecting the Party's ideological foundation" and topics, orient information, promptly combat sensitive events and issues.
The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department has edited and published two books, "Identifying plots and peaceful evolution activities of hostile forces in the fields of ideology and culture; awareness of preventing and combating self-evolution and self-transformation" and "Improving the effectiveness of protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against hostile and erroneous viewpoints in Nghe An province"; successfully defended one provincial-level scientific topic, "Current situation and solutions to improve the effectiveness of propaganda work and fighting against plots and peaceful evolution activities of hostile forces in the fields of ideology and culture in Nghe An province at present" to contribute to equipping Party committees and authorities at all levels with knowledge, skills and measures to effectively participate in this work.
“Currently, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee is advising the preparation of a document on thoroughly disseminating to cadres and party members the strict implementation of Regulation No. 85-QD/TW, dated October 7, 2022 of the Secretariat on "Cadres and party members establishing and using personal electronic information pages on the Internet and social networks", said comrade Pham Ngoc Canh - Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee.
Talking to Nghe An Newspaper reporters about the issue of protecting the Party's ideological foundation, Major General Le Van Cuong - former Director of the Institute of Strategy, Ministry of Public Security affirmed that this is a very important issue, a task of the entire Party and the entire people, in which the Party members play an extremely important role. Cadres and Party members must participate in protecting the ideological foundation through their practical action plans. According to the Major General, to do this well, first of all, all cadres and Party members must do their best in their assigned tasks, strictly comply with the law, and fully implement the Party's Resolutions, to create a healthy and developing society. When people have absolute trust in the Party, there is no room for hostile forces to interfere and sabotage. “Not only cadres and party members, but every Vietnamese citizen must also have that responsibility. 100 million Vietnamese people must fulfill their responsibilities, comply with the law, create conditions for economic development, and improve their lives. That is the healthiest environment to eliminate and neutralize reactionary, hostile, defamatory, and distorted propaganda,” Major General Le Van Cuong affirmed.
Practice shows that, in order to do a good job of protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile views in cyberspace, it is necessary to have solutions to improve the capacity, create "resistance", and "self-immunity" for each cadre and party member against bad and toxic information and erroneous views of hostile forces. That is to strengthen propaganda and education on Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought and the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws for cadres and party members, especially party members at the grassroots level; promptly provide official information in all fields, from politics to economics, society, to "hot" issues at home and abroad; open training courses to equip them with skills in using social networks, skills in distinguishing between right and wrong, positive and negative, good and bad information in cyberspace; raise awareness, responsibility and the important role of party members in cyberspace.
Party committees and organizations at all levels must maintain a disciplined, serious, and strict implementation of the regime of self-criticism and criticism, self-examination, and self-correction according to Conclusion 21-KL/TW of the 4th Central Conference, 13th term, in conjunction with the implementation of Directive 05-CT/TW, dated May 15, 2016 of the Politburo (12th term) on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle. Because if self-criticism and criticism are done well from the Party cell level, it will certainly bring practical results in preventing and combating "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" of each cadre and Party member in cyberspace.
In the current context, each cadre and party member also needs to raise awareness, capacity, responsibility, become a "wise person", have critical thinking, assess, evaluate, analyze, compare, "see right then protect", "see wrong then resolutely fight", every time receiving information on social network space; promote the spirit of "party members go first, the country follows", be a pioneering, exemplary force, use cyberspace responsibly and most effectively; affirm the important role and position on the front line of fighting, refuting false and hostile information on the internet and social network environment.
