"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on," said the former of UK's prime ministry Wiston Churchill, between 1940-1945 and 1951-1955.
The above quote described how a firehose of falsehood, called Hoax, has spread faster than a truth even when a validity has not yet been packaged. For years the circumstance is still relevant. Wherever you lived, hoax is found elsewhere.
It sounds horrendous. People will wonder what the particular causes are? yet it was led to by lack of literacy skills. As you can imagine, since social media has served our life, everyone could either produce or consume all kind of information. Thus, the information is out of control and consequently supports the deployment of that fake news. Without literalness ability, we would be a victim of an hoax.
Moreover, illiteracy skills are not the only one argument, there is more. Most cultural experts have seen it as a result of social construction, which means regardless of our society that does not live in reading culture, people are generally brainless. Our civilization tends to be gossiping by word of mouth. "Collectively our nation is in fifth rank for social media usage, so the gossiping culture moved to the cyber space such as facebook and twitter," Pilliang said, surname, one of cultural expert.
Pilliang's argument is in line with Indonesia's reports finding out that around 80 percent people look for information from social media instead of other reliable news platform. Severely, among the 80 percent, almost 90 percent of them did not know whether the information they read is true or false.
The report also noted that false news massively expanded faster than usual in political events such as simultaneous election, where a lot of notification directly attacked candidates devoid of facts.
Indonesia is a law state and has had an instrument to tackle this sole problem using Electronic Information Transaction Law (ITE) article 11/2008. By this verdict the government should be able to ward off hoaxes circulating in the public in accordance with the constitution. But in fact it does not work properly like what we want to.
For this reason, indicating that not only law enforcement on the regulation must be taken into account but ours, as a society, also have to play a role by considering impacts to detrimental chaos. Withal we also hope that interactive media usage has to be followed by social ethics, let alone spread things disturbed their feelings and being disadvantaged.
A report regarding dangerous information is much more, the public should cautiously filter in receiving information. We have to be carefully, we have to filter it, and as such we are not a robot having no brains. Filter prior to sharing is closely relevant. (tra/)