Abstract
The propagation of online falsehoods on COVID-19 has been of great concern in Indonesia, particularly those disseminated on WhatsApp, the second most popular social networking site in the country with more than two million monthly active users. This chapter explores how Indonesians engaged with the information ecosystem. This exploratory study found that WhatsApp was among the top three sources Indonesians used to obtain information relating to the pandemic and that corrections from physicians, academics and public officials were more likely to be believed by Indonesians.
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Wendratama, E., & Yusuf, I. A. (2023). COVID-19 Falsehoods on WhatsApp: Challenges and Opportunities in Indonesia. In Mobile Communication in Asia (Vol. Part F638, pp. 17–25). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2225-2_2
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