Fenomena Berita Hoaks Pada Platform Facebook Dalam Membentuk Kepercayaan Masyarakat Gen X

Abstract

Hoax news is news whose source is unclear. Hoax news contains information that is not true because it has been
engineered to look like real and as an attempt to distort the facts so that it can create anxiety, anxiety, and hatred
in society. Facebook is an application, one of the social media, or social networking services founded in February
2004 precisely in Cambridge, America by Mark Zuckerberg which allows its users to do many things including:
being able to interact with other Facebook users located throughout the world, users can display information
and display themselves by adding profile photos and personal contacts, and users can post everything either
personal photos videos or other people. Gen x is a term for the generation born between the middle of 1960 and
1980 so that if calculated from the current year (2023) then the gen x people are around 40 to 55 years old. The
purpose of this research is to: (1) Knowing the level of trust of the gen x community in the Facebook platform in
finding news (2) Knowing platforms other than Facebook that are used by the gen x community in finding news
(3) Knowing how the gen x community overcomes the problems that occur due to being consumed by hoax news.
The method we use in collecting data in this study uses qualitative methods with interview techniques to emphasize
the depth of data that we obtain in depth through the whatsapp platform to gen x people so that we can describe
our analysis data narratively and make conclusions by thinking inductively. The population in this study is the
gen x community who are users in the facebook application. The number of this study resulted in fifteen
respondents who came from gen x, including our parents and their friends and based on our search for posts that
are stories of people affected by hoax news in the facebook application.The results of this study show that: (1) In
addition to the facebook application, so far it turns out that not only gen z but also gen x have used the tiktok and
snackvideo applications to find the latest information or news that occurs because they are considered more upto-date than the facebook application (2) The spread of hoax news in the facebook application is classified in the
high category because so far there are still many posts whose sources are unclear (3) The level of anxiety in
society is low because they often receive education from their children (gen z) (4) The level of deception of gen x
in the facebook application is moderate, this is based on the recognition of the respondents who told about their
personal experiences and those around them. Thus, it can be concluded that the hypothesis in the study can be
accepted, namely "There is an influence of hoax news circulation in the formation of public trust in the current
era through the Facebook application".