ABSTRACT
This article explores social media coverage of news related to the infodemic as a threat to panic and peace in society during the current global crisis due to Covid-19. The infodemic phenomenon has distorted scientific work and reduced public trust in state authorities. This research has identified and analyzed the government’s response to fake news attacks on social media. The method used is qualitative-exploratory with data analysis used of Nvivo 12 Pro. The research results showed that the quality of people’s digital literacy, public communication performance, and the effectiveness of government regulations are part of the challenges in mitigating the infodemic. The Indonesian people have been trying to mitigate the Covid-19 infodemic in Indonesia, both in groups and individually. The presence of the digital society and media movement to mitigate the Covid-19 infodemic that is rife in industry 4.0 within digital public spaces in Indonesia. The presence of fact-checking in the form of a report website to face hoaxes and disinformation is a form of the Indonesian digital 4.0 mitigation movement. In addition to the efforts of the Government of Indonesia, which has three strategic approaches, namely 1) Upstream, digital literacy, and capacity;(2) middle flow, direct action to remove harmful information through technology and collaboration with social media platforms;and (3) downstream, direct action to provide technical assistance in monitoring the spread of malicious information. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.