Like a flood, a surge of information has engulfed everyone from policy makers to civilians in general. In the midst of these circumstances, the ability to sort out information and use it prudently has become a challenge

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.

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

The dissemination of hoaxes/fake news and cyberbullying creates low civility in Indonesia’s cyberspace. Digital literacy needs to be promoted intensively.

The transformation manifesto states that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of information technology. The changes that have occurred in five years seem to have changed in five months.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the mass media and social media appeared to be in competition to present information on Covid-19. After that, the public appears to be fed up with the massive volumes of das..