The Effect of Hate Speech Exposure on Religious Intolerance Among Indonesian Muslim Teenagers

The purpose of this paper is to explain whether there is an impact of hate speech and hoax news in social media exposure -either directly or indirectly through the level of media literacyon prejudice and religious intolerance among teenagers. In general, the result of this research shows that there is a significant effect of hate speech and hoax news in social media exposure to prejudice and religious intolerance. The research findings show that teenagers who are exposed to hate speech and hoax news on social media are adolescents who have a low level of media literacy. The results of this study indicate that among teenagers who have been exposed to hate speech and hoax news in social media affect their prejudice and religious intolerance because of low levels of media literacy. Therefore, it is necessary to increase media literacy for teenagers so that they are not exposed to hate speech and hoax news in social media to minimize prejudice and religious intolerance. Keywords—hate speech, hoax news, social media, media literacy, and religious intolerance