Fake News (Hoax) and Paranoid Frame of Min of Social Media User

The presence of smart devices (Smartphones) is
currently considered an answer to that desire. This device is able
to make social media today capable of being accessed anytime,
anywhere and by anyone who seems to be difficult to be released
from various activities of society today. Even medsos considered
as a channel in search for information or news as desired. Not
infrequently the speed and ease in accessing news through social
media makes a netizen more responsive and sensitive to things
around it even though it is fake news (hoax). Even the Indonesian
Telematics Society (MASTEL) noted in February 2017, the most
widely accepted hoax distribution through social media reached
92.4 percent. Social media here include Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Path, Line, WhatsApp, and Telegram.
The high confidence in the truth of the contents of the hoax
news raises a paranoid mentality among the masses, which makes
the people in the Post Truth Era considered an era where
opinions and politics are based more on emotions and beliefs
than on objective facts. And puts social users into echo chamber
phenomena that make people communicate only with the like, as
well as feel paranoid to those who disagree with it. Without any
filtering in response to medsos news then paranoid mental will be
very strong sticking in active users of social media.
Keywords— Media Sosial, Hoax, Paranoid Frame Of Mind