The Language of Hoax: Explosive Growth of Fake News in the Biggest Muslim Society

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hoax, kind of sentences, author purposes, social media, information discovery

Abstract

Social media has grown rapidly and automatically allows new types of interactions. As a result, people are polarized into those who use social media positively or negatively. Such an interesting topic attracted the author to conduct a research aiming to find out how people convey hoaxes through sentences and how hoaxes affect their communication interaction. This qualitative research adopted a formal search to tract, report, and measure the impact of hoaxes. The data of the research consisted of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences obtained through browsing the social media, such as face book, twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp. All data then were analyzed qualitatively to identify hoaxes in accordance with the topics of their communication in the social media in January-July 2018. The study revealed that hoaxes were mostly expressed in assertive or declarative sentences, however some others used imperative and subjective (optative) sentences. The hoax sentences are easily found in everyday communication topics, such as civil servant formation, prostitution, figures, health, security, volcano eruption, and credit card offer. While, the social media the people used to share their hoaxes covered Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp as they were easily accessed. Intentionally, they used hoax sentences to inform, persuade, frighten, and even emotionally to touch the readers so that they would be provoked to do chaos endangering the national integration. Therefore, it would be necessary for the government to issue regulations or policies that reduce the negative impacts hoax sentences in the social media.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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