DIGITAL CAPABILITIES IN MINIMIZING THE SPREAD OF HOAX NEWS

Abstract

The availability of diverse information and easy access in the digital era has a negative side to the acceptance and review of information by the public. The availability of information that everyone wants makes a weakness, namely the number of hoax news present against the existing news. Departing from the above, the purpose of doing research on digital skills which will be an effort to suppress the rate of spread of hoax news that is widely circulated among internet-based media users, especially to students of MAN 1 Panyabungan. This study uses in-depth interviews with MAN 1 Panyabungan students and observations on their social media. This activity involved 20 students from Class XI. The results obtained from this study are 7 students based on the results of interviews and categorized as having high digital skills will be more introspective in carrying out news sharing activities by reading and re-checking the validity of the news received, 6 students prefer to directly share news without doing crosschecks. on the content and sources of news and the rest of the students chose to be indifferent to the activities of re-sharing the news they found. In this study, the level of awareness of MAN 1 Panyabungan students began to spread at the developing stage towards caring for news because of awareness of literacy and digital skills