“…Using digital forensic on the internet search engine, URL, and photo from the article to consult it with Indonesian regulation and law is also considered as an effective practical mechanism to confirm whether a news flow is classified as a hoax or not. Further action can also be done to identify the author of a hoax based on linguistic profile shown by bit-level based n-gram analysis on hoax discourse (Gjylbegaj, 2018;Huang & Chen, 2020;Ko et al, 2019;Kumar, 2017;Meinarni & Iswara, 2018;Peng, Choo, & Ashman, 2016;Singh et al, 2020;Sirajudeen, Azmi, & Abubakar, 2017;Tukina, Mozin, & Sanjaya, 2020; Zhang & Ghorbani, I n P r e s s 2020).…”