Legal basis:
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 1 In any of the following circumstances, it shall be deemed as "fabricating facts to slander others" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246 of the Criminal Law:
(a) fabricating facts that damage the reputation of others and spreading them on the information network, or organizing or instructing personnel to spread them on the information network;
(2) Tampering with the original information content involving others on the information network as a fact that damages the reputation of others, spreading it on the information network, or organizing or instructing personnel to spread it on the information network;
Knowing that it is a fabricated fact that damages the reputation of others and spreads it on the information network, if the circumstances are bad, it is regarded as "fabricating facts to slander others".
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.