KRISIS KOMUNIKASI
Information is basically the
content of a message which often
relates to knowledge or data. The
content of the information can be
disseminated through various mediums.
Now with the help of technology,
we can easily have access over any
information that we are searching for.
Nonetheless, information has
a tendency to be biased and can
sometimes be false. False information
can be in the form of news or stories
created to deliberately misinform
or simply because the ‘messenger’
could not be bothered to fact check,
an innocent mistake as some people
would have called it.
This could be harmful to the
community and may lead to negative
effects since the receiver may take in
the message incorrectly and spread the
information to other people without
cross-checking the information.
Fake news can be conflated into
three notions which are known as
disinformation, misinformation and
mal-information. It is important to
differentiate what is the truth and what
is fake as some messages were created
and distributed with bad intention.
Moving on to the three notions
of fake news, what is known as disinformation
is basically information
that’s false and is created to harm an
individual, group, organization, or
country. Misinformation, on the other
hand, refers to information that’s false
but was not created with the intention of
causing harm. Lastly, mal-information
that’s supported reality, wont to inflict
harm on an individual, organization
or country. It’s basically genuine
information that was purposely shared
to cause harm which had been moved
from a private space to public which
includes harassment, some types of
leaks, and hate speech online.
Back then, most people got
information through television and
newspapers as it was the only source
of information. However, it is not the
case today. People nowadays sought
news via social media platforms such
as Twitter and Facebook as well as
online news portals with the help of the
Internet to learn about what is going on
around them. That being said, people
in this day and age don’t depend on
television or newspapers anymore.
However, though convenient,
the Internet is also the home for
inaccurate content which might be
really dangerous to society to some
extent. This phenomenon is called
‘infodemic’ which can be best defined
as an overabundance of information
that may lead to false news. This
happens when the information was
spread to billions of people but the
quality of the information circulated
has the chance to be manipulated or
taken out of context.
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