Government and Media: Stop Hoax Need Wise Attitude
Main Auditorium, UIN News online- Government is asking UIN Jakarta community members to help in minimizing the spread of massive news of hoax this could be done by acting wisely while accessing news on various social media. On the other hand, the spreading of hoaxes are stucked not only dominated by social media, the mainstream media is also thought to have stuck in these hoax news.
Thus are the concluding point by the seminar 'Hoax in the Mass Media and Social Media: The struggle between slander and Social Responsibility' in the Main Auditorium on Tuesday (07/03/2017). Seminar was attended by speakers , Director General of Information and Public Communication Ministry of Communication and Information Rosarita Niken Widyastuti, Press Council member Imam Wahyudi, and Experts of Information Technology and Social Media Nukman Luthfie.
According to Niken, the hoax are more and more massive lately. With the convincing look and editorial, it contains extremism and various forms of violence. While the source itself is not clear. "The spreading is quite massive," she said.
The spreading is extremely massive, she said, it’s because the use of social media is used broadly through mobile phone (smart phone). At the same time, people use it every day and very likely to have information from their smart phone. This advances is not enough by conducting wise attitude with their news sources selecting.
Imam added that the deployment of because the track is not just from social media, but also the mainstream mass media. "The majority of their path through social media, but the mainstream media also plays a role," he said.
Citing from a survey, Imam explained, print media accounted hoax distribution equivalent to 5%. At the same time, the television as media accounted for 8.7%. "The mainstream media is expected to provide a rich source of valid and accurate, and cannot escape the effects of the distribution of a hoax," he said.
Imam Alleged, the spreading of a hoax via the mainstream media cannot be separated from human carelessness in it. Carelessness emerged as indifference on principles and ethics of journalism which emphasizes accuracy and balance reporting.
Both Niken nor Imam agreed on the need of wise attitude from society. The government itself, obviously, has been trying hard to shut down sites that allegedly carry out the distribution of pornography, violence, and hatred. "Throughout 2016 no less than 800 thousand hate-mongers and pornography sites has been removed," Niken said.
On the other hand, the government through the Ministry of Communication launched a website aduancontent.kominfo.go.id. This site works by public reporting hoax sites which initiated by them on turn back hoax. "We cooperate with the some parties to report active hoax on this site," she said. (im)