虚假新闻的存在严重威胁社会发展。在所有虚假新闻中，虚假时政新闻所带来的危害最为深远。虚假时政新闻的内容多是一国的政治动态和政府的政务工作，与经济发展和人民生活密不可分，背后甚至还存在着明确的政治和经济目的，会混淆公众视听，制造社会分歧，危害国家的公共安全，严重削弱政府权威。特别是随着媒体融合的加快，信息传播的途径更多、速度更快，打破了地域、国界等的束缚，为虚假时政新闻的传播创造了便利条件。

近年来，我国政府也备受虚假时政新闻的困扰，特别是2020年初爆发了新冠肺炎疫情，与之相关的各种虚假时政新闻随之而来。这一时期的虚假时政新闻不仅政治指向明确，而且传播主体多元、传播速度快、造假手段多样，让民众对政府关于疫情防控的决策部署产生质疑，导致政府和人民之间产生了信任危机，严重损害了国家权威机关的公信力。

为了应对疫情引发的虚假时政新闻，我国政府根据以往的虚假新闻治理经验，在立法、政府管控等方面又加大了治理力度，在一定程度上抑制了虚假时政新闻的传播。但与此同时，疫情的爆发也暴露了我国在虚假时政新闻治理方面存在的诸多问题，主要表现为立法仍不完善、信息监控不及时、信息公开滞后、政府不作为、媒体缺位，以及公民非理性参与。究其原因，主要是治理模式单一、网络舆情监管不成熟、信息传输不畅、媒体责任感缺失，以及公民批判能力不足造成的。

针对现阶段出现的问题，应依据多中心治理原则，从政府、媒体、公民等方面进行改进。在政府层面，要完善新闻及信息公开方面的法律法规、完善网络舆情监管、设立协调政府各部门之间工作的专门机构，同时加大政府内部思想文化建设的力度。在媒体层面，主流媒体作为政府的喉舌，应主动承担起虚假时政新闻的治理责任，自媒体应当提升“自净”能力，加大对虚假信息的过滤和审核能力。在公民层面，既需要公民自觉提升自身素养，又需要政府和媒体联手，为公民提升自身素养营造良好的制度环境。

The existence of fake news seriously threatens social development. Among all the fake news, the fake political news brings the most profound harm. Fake political news is related to a country's political and government affairs, and closely related to the economic development and people's livelihood, even reflecting clear political and economic purposes. Fake political news will influence public opinions, create social differences and threaten the country's public security, so it is a great challenge to the authority of the government. With the acceleration of media convergence, there are more ways for information transmission and its speed is faster, which breaks the restrictions of region and national boundaries and creates convenient conditions for the spread of fake political news.

In recent years, the Chinese government has also been plagued by fake political news. In particular, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out at the beginning of 2020, which has brought various fake political news. Fake politics news during this period was not only political-oriented, but also had other characteristics, such as transmission diversity, fast speed, various means of counterfeiting, which made people question the government's response to the epidemic. As a result, trust crisis developed between the government and the people, severely weakening the credibility of the Party and the government.

In order to deal with the fake political news caused by the epidemic, the Chinese government has strengthened the governance in the aspects of legislation and government control based on the previous experience in dealing with fake news, which has played a positive role in restraining the spread of fake political news. But at the same time, the outbreak of the epidemic has exposed many problems in the governance of fake political news in our country: the legislation is still imperfect; the information monitoring and disclosure are not timely; government inaction; media failure; irrational participation of citizens. The main reasons are the single governance mechanism, the immature supervision of network public opinion, poor information transmission, lack of responsibility in the media and the insufficient critical ability of citizens.

In order to deal with the problems at present stage, improvements should be made by the government, media and the citizens based on the polycentric governance mechanism. From the government level, laws and regulations concerning news and information disclosure should be improved, supervision of online public opinion should be perfected, a special agency to coordinate government information disclosure should be set up and ideological and cultural construction within the government should be strengthened. From the media level, the mainstream media, as the mouthpiece of the government, should actively take the responsibility to control fake political news; We-media should improve the ability of "self-purification" and strengthen the ability of identifying fake information. From the citizen level, people should consciously improve their own quality while the government and the media should work together to create a good institutional environment for them.