Breadfruit (malangkota.go.id) – The Malang City Communication and Information Service (Kominfo) held an activity to disseminate information entitled 'Existing Without Hoaxes, You Can' at the Ijen Suites Hotel Malang, Thursday (21/3).
The activity, which was attended by representatives of students from junior high and senior high schools in Malang City, was opened directly by the Mayor of Malang, Drs. H. Sutiaji. In addition to the Mayor of Malang, speakers from the Malang City Police, namely the Deputy Chief of Malang City Police Police Commissioner Bambang Christanto Utomo also present to provide materials to the participants of the activity.
In his speech, the Mayor of Malang, Drs. H. Sutiaji, said that in the past, namely in the 70s, the activities that were usually carried out by the community were feelings while petan. "Along with the advancement of technology today, by using handphone society can do feelings with so many followers through a group on social media.
"The unfortunate thing is what was conveyed in feelings "There is a lot of slander in the group, this is what we must fight together," said Sutiaji, Thursday (21/3).
Sutiaji admitted that the activity held by the Malang City Communication and Information Service was a very good and constructive activity. Because in the digital era like today, the penetration of social media in various aspects of life is increasingly massive.
Whether it is economic, social, cultural, political to defense and security activities, according to him, it is greatly influenced by social media. This is a consequence of changes in communication patterns and conventional media methods towards digital communication.
"From social media, various information flowing without limits can bring positive and negative impacts. This is where public education is needed so that they can make the best use of social media for the improvement and development of the nation," said Sutiaji.
The existence of social media that contains negative content, hoaxes, false information (fake news), wrong information (false news) has a tremendous destructive power. From this reality there must be a joint effort to be able to raise public awareness to jointly combat hoaxes and negative content.
It must also be acknowledged that the great potential of social media is targeting young people who are still unstable and tend to be more emotional. That is why the Mayor of Malang said it is very important to hold activities like this involving students.
"From this activity we hope that participants will be able to gain a good understanding regarding the use of the internet and social media wisely," he hoped. (cah/yon)
