The purpose of the study is to analyze the public's recognition of false news in the new media environment，to measure the public's ability to identify false news.In this study，a total of 540 valid samples are obtained.The study finds the public consider there are plenty of false news in Internet field，they think false news concentrate in entertainment news and social news field and exist in the WeChat，WeiBo platform and network forum.The reasons caused false news are the following factors：commercial interests driven，lack of strict information check，short of legal regulations.The public think there are some methods of solving false news that include strengthening media supervision，the legal supervision and management，and improving journalists' professional moral quality.In addition，the public ability of false information discrimination is not good，so the study suggests that it is necessary to improve the level of public media literacy and ability to distinguish false news.