The Department of Computer Science at the University of Technology held a symposium tagged "Risks of rumors and drugs and their effects on society" and under the direct supervision of the head of the Department of Computer Science, Prof. Dr. Alia Karim Abdel-Hassan, and in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior / Department of Fighting Rumors, on Tuesday 15/3/2022 at Jaber Bin Hayyan Hall in The Department of Production and Metallurgy Engineering, in the presence of a number of department heads, professors, and a large number of students. The symposium was attended by Brigadier General Nibras Muhammad Ali, director of the anti-rumor department, and Captain Haider Hadi, a researcher and academic in the field of fighting rumors. The symposium stressed the need to maintain family cohesion and cohesion at this time when there are gaps within the same family due to the preoccupation of its members with social networking sites and their distance from each other, which led to an increase in suicides and crimes of electronic blackmail. young lady. Emphasis was also placed on the need for the individual to have the legal culture to deal consciously with websites and not to encourage videos with substandard content. In the end, the Head of the Computer Science Department distributed certificates of appreciation to the lecturers.