The Hoax News Text On Social Media: A Critical Discourse Study

Abstract

The phenomenon of using language in cyberspace or social media has indeed a trend with various contemporary applications, with the aim of being more effective and efficient in communicating. The benefits of technology cannot be reached by its advantages and besides that, it also cannot be ignored from the negative side. It is possible that with various applications, it is easy to spread fake news text on social media. The text of fake news on social media, information in this study is used as a data source and at the same time used as an object of study on Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and other media accounts. The aim of this study was to describe in depth the problem of the phenomenon of the spread of fake news texts on social media, this is adjusted to the problems raised in this study. The purpose is to find out and analyze the language criteria used in hoax text news texts on social media. This research was a type of qualitative descriptive research. By using van Dijk's version of the critical discourse study theory as a theoretical framework with the aim of revealing the phenomenon of language use in depth, both micro and macro, with the point of view of discourse as a text, social cognition, and context. Furthermore,   methods and the techniques of data collection in this study. As the first step by way of observation, the next step was documentation that was supported by instruments in the form of questionnaires and analysis tables. Based on the results of data analysis, several things were found as follows: (1) criteria for hoax news texts on social media, consisting of (a) fake news texts on S social media are only humorous; (b) have low modality (c) motivation to want to cheat relatively (d) have incomplete information (e), not high plagiarism. Thus all of these things are indeed true empirically that the condition of the text of hoax news on social media is as described previously. All of this has become a widespread discussion regarding the concept of hoax news itself.