Hegemonic Representation in Detik.com’s News on Disinformation, Defamation, and Hate Speech (DFK) in the 2025 Demonstration Riots: A Critical Discourse Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.v26i2.1804Keywords:
Critical Discourse Analysis, Detik.com, DFK, digital democracy, HegemonyAbstract
This study examines the discourse construction surrounding disinformasi, fitnah, kebencian (DFK; disinformation, defamation, and hate speech) in the online media outlet Detik.com following the demonstrations over DPR RI (the Indonesian House of Representatives’) allowances in August–September 2025. It aims to reveal how Detik.com uses evaluative language strategies to legitimize the state’s moral authority in regulating the public digital sphere. Applying a qualitative approach with Fairclough’s (2010) three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study analyzes five Detik.com news articles concerning the takedown of live-streaming content and the prohibition of secondary accounts. The findings are interpreted through Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, as adapted by Ives (2004). At the micro level, Detik.com employs high-intensity rhetoric and negative moral labels to criminalize the public’s organic digital expressions (Spontaneous Grammar) while normalizing the state’s restrictive policies as legitimate protective measures. At the meso level, production routines reliant on a single elite source and the speed of information circulation shape the positioning of a broad readership down to the regional level. At the macro level, this discourse reflects the ruling class’s cultural strategy through the “War of Position” mechanism to secure civil society’s consent. The sociocultural implications include the suppression of critical public consciousness (Good Sense) through fear of expression. This study demonstrates that disinformation discourse in mainstream media has become a political instrument for disciplining social movements and indicates a serious setback in Indonesia’s digital democratic landscape.
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