Knowing the Difference Between Misinformation and Disinformation

The majority of these hoaxes circulate via Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp.

In fact, similar findings were also obtained from a survey by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. As a result, 88 percent of journalists found the most hoaxes on Facebook, then WhatsApp, 22 on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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That way, we can be more observant and introspective in sorting and choosing the information we get from each of these platforms.

Fourth, pay attention to the use of keywords in searching through search engines.

We are familiar with various kinds of search engines that help in the process of searching digital data and information.

Call it three of them Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Of the three, Google is perhaps the search engine we access most often.

In fact, according to data, Google is categorized as the most popular search engine in Indonesia with 23 to 1,689,000,000 visits per year in 2020.

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Given the large amount of digital data and information archived in search engines, we are required to be able to find information quickly and accurately.

For example, take advantage of the sections available on Google, for example, the News section to find the latest news related to Covid-19, as in the following example:

Quoting from the Google page, a number of things to consider when searching for information via Google include:

1) Search with simple and basic keywords;

2) Perform a search using voice, for example with

say “Ok Google”