Is it a rumor to forward disinformation information?

There is no crime of spreading rumors in Chinese law, but there are specific provisions on the judicial interpretation of forwarding behavior. The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme Procuratorate promulgated the Judicial Interpretation on Handling Criminal Cases of Defamation by Information Network, which stipulated that if the same defamatory information was actually clicked and viewed more than 5,000 times, or forwarded more than 500 times, it should be considered as "serious" as stipulated in Article 246 1 of the Criminal Law, which may constitute a crime of libel. If the perpetrator knowingly fabricates facts that damage the reputation of others and carries out acts that spread on the information network, which have caused actual damage subjectively, intentionally and objectively, and the circumstances are bad, he shall be convicted and punished for libel. If the perpetrator does not know that the false facts fabricated by others are published online, even if it does some damage to the victim's reputation, it does not constitute libel.