To ensure a clear and harmonious online space during the Spring Festival, the Cyberspace Administration of China officially launched today a one-month "Clean Web · 2026 Creating a Joyful and Harmonious Online Environment for the Spring Festival" special operation. This campaign will focus on rectifying four major categories of online ecological problems that have been strongly reflected by the public.

Among these, "digital food waste" and other low-quality AI-generated information have become key challenges in this governance. The Cyberspace Administration clearly stated that it will severely crack down on the use of AI technology to mass-produce content with logical confusion and empty information, as well as vulgar "remixes" and jokes involving classic works and historical anecdotes.

Four Key Areas of Focus for the Special Operation:

  • Inciting Negative Emotions Maliciously: This includes promoting bad values such as not marrying or having children, inciting gender opposition, and using the Spring Festival goods comparison to show off wealth, organizing "fan circles" to attack and denigrate each other, etc.

  • Cleaning Up "Digital Food Waste" Spam Information: This mainly targets AI-generated "inspirational web articles," false "expert explanations," and marketing copy that maliciously portrays conflicts between in-laws, family disputes, etc.

  • Cracking Down on False Information and Rumors: Strictly punishing the creation of rumors in fields such as the Spring Festival travel rush and holiday supplies, cracking down on "clickbait" titles that forge authoritative announcements, and misleading behaviors by impersonating public figures.

  • Blocking Illegal Activities' Traffic: This includes directing traffic to gambling through sports predictions, using the "Spring Festival companions" topic to promote pornography, and providing illegal feudal superstitious divination services, among other activities.