The Ministry Of Communication And Information Removes Almost All Hoaxes About COVID-19 On Social Media

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Informatics revealed that it had taken down almost all hoaxes related to COVID-19 that had circulated on social media. Quoted from Antara, Wednesday, May 11, the Ministry of Communication and Information had taken down 5,666 hoaxes about COVID-19 from the total distribution. 5,946. These hoaxes about COVID-19 have been collected since January 23, 2020. Kominfo found that the social media platform Facebook is still the place where the most hoaxes about COVID-19 are spread. From a total of 5,946 hoaxes, 5,219 were spread through Facebook. The second largest distribution came from Twitter, which was 578. After that, YouTube became the third largest place for spreading COVID-19 hoaxes, namely 55. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics also found that hoaxes were spread on the photo and video sharing platform Instagram. , 52 distributions and TikTok, a short video platform, as many as 42 distributions. Of all the hoaxes on the platform, there are still 280 content that is being followed up.

In addition to lowering, the Ministry of Communication and Information has also brought 767 content to the legal realm, including for the issue of the COVID-19 vaccine, the highest retail price for COVID-19 drugs and the Enforcement of Restrictions on Community Activities. For law enforcement of hoaxes related to COVID-19, Kominfo cooperates with the National Police. Especially for hoaxes about PPKM, as of May 11, Kominfo found that there were 1,822 content distributions on five social media platforms. 1,788 of the total distribution. On Twitter, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology found that there were 15 distributions of hoax content about PPKM, while on TikTok there were 10. Two other platforms, Instagram and YouTube, there were 7 and 2 distributions of hoax PPKM content, respectively. From the overall distribution on social media, Kominfo has lowered 1,492, while another 330 are being followed up.