去年9月，河南省太康縣2歲半的小朋友王鳳雅被查出患有視網膜母細胞瘤，其父母利用多個網絡眾籌平臺為她募捐治病。儘管如此，今年5月4日，不到3歲的小鳳雅還是重症不治，不幸去世。
On May 4, Wang Fengya, a three-year-old girl from Taikang County, in central China’s Henan Province, died from retinoblastoma, a type of eye cancer that occurs mostly in children under two years of age.
Too poor to afford the medical expenses, her mother, Yang Meiqin, raised money twice through a crowd-funding platform called Shuidichou in November and March, according to Red Star News, Chengdu Economic Daily’s new media platform.
緊接著，網絡沸騰了。當日微博話題“#王鳳雅去世#”一度佔領熱搜榜第5、第10位，討論量達33萬次。
隨著各路機構媒體、自媒以及圍觀網友的持續跟進，事件持續發酵——網絡輿論延伸到了現實中。“愛心人士”報警，尋找小鳳雅的父母；上海的一個公益組織，則是特地趕到了河南農村，對楊美芹進行“監督”，雙方甚至發生了衝突。
However, after fundraising, some netizens doubted whether Yang had actually spent the money on her daughter and speculated that she had instead spent it on medical costs for her son.
Where did the donation go?
People later discovered that Yang had three other daughters and one son who has a cleft palate.
On May 4, before the truth was discovered, the girl died. This only made onlookers more angry.
People started to believe that the girl only received conservative treatment without any chemotherapy or surgery.
Does it mean that the family abandoned the treatment of a tumor with a survival rate of more than 94 percent?
Some people suggested that the family had inappropriately abused the kindness of donors. Voices calling for better supervision over crowd-funding in China became louder over the following days.
“We will ask the family to explain the details of the medical treatment, traffic and living expenses for the girl”, Zhang Leiluo, the head of the publicity department with the public security bureau in Taikang County, Zhoukou city, said on May 24, “we can only know some medical treatment costs based on the receipts from the hospital.”
沒想到，也就是在當地警方、媒體等相關機構的介入下，事情隨後發生了反轉：
1. 小鳳雅的父母在水滴籌平臺並沒有籌集到15萬（這裡的15萬隻是籌款目標），而是35689元，這一點得到水滴籌的證實，並表明該機構已派人和律師赴當地協助有關部門調查。
2. 所募集到的款項，並沒有挪作他用。王鳳雅的爺爺表示，5月25日已向當地公安機關說明善款的使用情況，並提供了相關票據，有票據和沒票據的開支一共有37337元。在王鳳雅使用的醫藥費、尋醫差旅費、生活費、喪葬費等支出後，善款剩餘1301元，並已捐贈太康縣慈善會，辦理了相關手續。當地警方在經過調查後也認為，募集到的款項並沒有被挪用。
One day later, Shuidichou released a statement saying that it was working with the police to figure out if there was any misappropriation and how much money had been used for the girl’s treatment.
The family has gathered 39,638 yuan (around 6,224 US dollars) in total, including 35,689 yuan (around 5,586 US dollars) donated through the fundraising platform and 2,949 yuan from WeChat as well as some live-stream platforms, said the local police on May 25 to Red Star Newspaper.
真相接近大白，至此，網友的情緒從先前的“憤怒譴責”，開始轉向緩和、紛紛道歉，不少網友提出了需要反思“自媒體”、“大V”等對輿論的引導作用。
The controversies and fights have finally ended with apologies from netizens but the family claims they will sue the culprit behind the rumor.
“My daughter-in-law has been afraid of turning on her cell phone for days”, the grandmother of the little girl told the Legal Newspaper on May 27.
The whole discussion has triggered reflections on the nature of public opinion on social media platforms in China.
“Only a transparent charity system can truly help the poor who really need help,” Xuezhong Hongmei said.
“Even though bloggers and media have deleted their posts, who will answer for this crime?”,Lantian said.
It is easy to make conclusions based on fragmented pieces of information, but when it comes to serious issues like this, people should be more cautious in their judgments, at least until solid evidence is discovered. Without this, it is unfortunately very easy to "bring damage to innocent people and their family," said a writer from CCTV News.
2016年牛津詞典年度英文關鍵詞為“後真相（post-truth）”。根據牛津出版社的解釋，“後真相”指的是“情緒和個人理念影響公眾意見，而事實真相反而無足輕重的氛圍"。在這次令人大跌眼鏡的反轉中，指責王鳳雅的父母挪用善款，“用女兒的命來治兒子的病”，在證據確鑿之前，情緒已經躍然紙上。
一場眾口鑠金的輿論風暴，受影響最大的是本已傷痕累累的王鳳雅家庭。匯聚善心不能僅僅靠情緒和衝動，而是要有堅持和探索真理的理性和專業。
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