How many times has information network libel reached?

If the same libel message is actually clicked, viewed more than 5000 times, or forwarded more than 500 times, it constitutes libel. Whoever publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. The crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be dealt with only if they are told, except those that seriously endanger social order and national interests. If the victim informs the people's court of the acts specified in the first paragraph through the information network, but it is really difficult to provide evidence, the people's court may request the public security organ to provide assistance.

Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Defamation by Information Network.

Article 2 Whoever uses the information network to slander others in any of the following circumstances shall be deemed as "serious" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246th of the Criminal Law:

(1) The same defamatory information has actually been clicked or viewed more than 5,000 times, or has been forwarded more than 500 times;

(2) Causing serious consequences such as mental disorder, self-mutilation and suicide of the victim or his close relatives;

(3) Defaming others within two years after being punished by administrative punishment for defamation;

(4) Other serious circumstances.

Criminal law of the people's Republic of China

Article 246 Whoever publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. The crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be dealt with only if they are told, except those that seriously endanger social order and national interests. If the victim informs the people's court of the acts specified in the first paragraph through the information network, but it is really difficult to provide evidence, the people's court may request the public security organ to provide assistance.