Having critical thinking dispositions and abilities, one will not take things for granted but questions, analyzes, evaluates, and synthesizes what he reads and hears before drawing a conclusion Thus, he will be. be able to discern legitimate information from misinformation, lies, and nonsense. Fake news, defined by HLEG (2018) as “all forms of false, inaccurate, or misleading information designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit” has emerged as a problem that endangers public life. The propagation of fake news in the form of hate speech, fabricated stories, manipulated content, slander, and clickbait after the 2019 parliamentary and presidential election in Indonesia , for instance, almost disrupted the nation's unity. White (2017) states fake news is “a problem that threatens the very roots of modern democracy.” Infodemic that has been spreading more quickly than the current coronavirus pandemic has been endangering public healt...
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