From "Screening for Your Child" to "Judging Together with Your Child" — A Practical Guide for Parents to Respond to the Impact of Online Information

At the end of 2025, a motivational short video claiming that Wu Yuhao, a student at the junior high division of Ziyang Middle School, had made a dramatic academic turnaround was frequently pushed on Douyin. The Chengdu Internet Rumor Refutation Platform subsequently issued an announcement: the person is a fabricated identity, the bloggers who posted the videos are all non-locals, and parents are urged to be highly vigilant. This typical case in Ziyang precisely exploited parents' parenting anxiety, constructed emotionally resonant scenarios, implanted motives tied to parents' needs, and used falsehoods passed off as truth to achieve marketing. We now live in an internet era in which short-video content often undergoes reversals, and even further reversals, and many subjects make it hard to tell truth from falsehood, while parents cannot possibly do...