Two largest spreaders "Hoax" in Indonesia

Ditulis Unknown — Jumat, 02 Desember 2016

TEKNOLOGY - Internet into the fields of information indefinitely with rapid deployment and broad coverage. Society can determine an event in real-time and learn about anything just by typing a keyword in the search engine field.

However, there are consequences of membeludaknya information, especially when everyone is free to act as a source of information. The consequence is buramnya dividing wall between fact and hoax.

Community Community Anti Defamation Indonesia have already identified two sites that play a role in spreading the news hoax. Initiator of the community, Septiaji Eko Nugroho, clearly mention the name of the site, namely pos-metro.com and nusanews.com.

According to the review of the community, at least two students from Sumatra is known as the maker of hoaxtersebut news portal.

KompasTekno have tried to access the two sites, but did not succeed because it has blocked the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Communications).

What is the motive of the manufacturing site of the hoax news disseminators? Not because of money matters. Still according Septiaji, the news spread hoaxes on the Internet has become a commodity. In fact, civil servants (PNS) did not hesitate to make a living by spreading false news.

"There was a civil servant, then out of PNS for 'incitement focus on managing the site as it was," says the initiator of the Anti Defamation Society community Indonesia, Septiaji Eko Nugroho, told KompasTekno via short messages, Friday (12/02/2016).

Septiaji not mention the identity of the detail of the individual civil servants. What is clear, he said, business news website hoax considered beneficial and do not need large capital and operating costs that attract many people.

Could be USD 600 to USD 700

As described earlier, the money scooped major news sites hoaxterhitung. Said the average income ranges from Rp 600 million to Rp 700 million per year.

"That's estimation, could be more, could be less. Our team analyzes of traffic and advertising potential obtained from AdSense," said Septiaji.

The logic is simple, news hoax most sensational load content without any verification. Content sensational invite clickbait and the edges become fertile ground for the Google AdSense advertising service.

Septiaji hope this hoax news spread phenomenon could soon be dealt with firmly by the government. He and his community could only watch and share information related to the movement of the spreader news is not true.

"We based the power of community. We raised all netizens who are concerned with the importance of social media are positive. For the short term, we will begin to strengthen the network of inter-volunteer anti-hoax, inter-group anti-hoax, resource sharing, and increased synergy," he explain.

Looking ahead, Septiaji also plans to hold cultural figures, preachers, teachers, education leaders, as well as professional figures who have influence in both social media and offline world.

The goal is that the characters can be helped socialize the proper use of social media and how dangerous the spreading slander from the moral, cultural, ethical, and religious.