STRATEGI DINAS KOMUNIKASI DAN INFORMATIKA KOTA BATU DALAM MENANGANI PENYEBARAN INFORMASI HOAX (TAHUN 2021-2022)

In 2020 the Ministry of Communication and Information stated that there were around 800,000 sites in Indonesia that had been indicated as disseminators of hoax information. He said that the development of the internet had been used by certain individuals for personal and group benefits by spreading negative content which caused uproar in society. In the current era, with the rapid development of technology, it encourages following current trends, as well as encouraging people to exchange messages, news and share information. The purpose of this study is to find out how the Batu City Communication and Informatics Service's efforts to overcome hoax news. The research method used by researchers in this study is a qualitative method. The location of this research is at the Batu City Diskominfo. The data collection techniques that the researchers carried out were observation, interview and documentation techniques. From the findings in the field it is known that hoax news which often reaches the people in Batu City can be in the form of writing, pictures and videos that disseminated through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp groups as well as through online news portals. In dealing with the spread of hoax news in the city of Batu, the Communication and Information Service of the City of Batu has made various efforts through broadcasting, outreach and forming a Community Information Community (KIM) strategy.