Many people still need digital literacy. Hoaxes can spread because the level of literacy is low and the level of conflict is very high, making people too sensitive.

Rendi, a collector of NFT or non-fungible tokens for the Kompas daily, took a photo with the Kompas daily newspaper which he collected in the form of NFT during a visit to the Kompas Information Center in Jakarta, Tuesda

Strengthening digital literacy is expected to boost the public’s thinking power, so they are not easily provoked by false information.

The internet has given birth to many new mediums for people to interact. These mediums sometimes offer a hiding place, a refuge for fugitives, or even a command room to develop war strategies.

In 2011, Julian Assange, the cofounder of WikiLeaks, from house arrest in the UK, expressed his views on the potential for this chaos to then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google ideas director Jared Cohen.

In the past year, the attitude of Indonesian social media users was among the worst in the world, as indicated in an annual survey conducted by Microsoft that was published last week.

It is suspected that the Twitter hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac that has been trending recently was coordinated. The hashtag pursues an anti-vaccine narrative and contains misleading information.

Everything that happens virtually reflects the real world. Indonesia’s civility in the virtual world is still low, reflecting our problematic real world.