User:Mhatopzz/Billie Eilish vandalism on Indonesian Wikipedia case

The Billie Eilish article  on Indonesian Wikipedia was  vandalized by stating that she were born in Nganjuk, East Java, Indonesia. The vandalized article was discovered on 12 November 2021, after a Facebook user named Steven Gamaliel posted a screenshot of it on a Facebook group. The post went viral thereafter and the information contained in the article was spreading to other social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. It was later revealed that the information was a Hoax and had become a popular meme in Indonesia.

Spread
On the morning of 12 November 2021 at 7.34 UTC+7, a Facebook user named Steven Gamaliel posted a screenshot of a Wikipedia article on a public Facebook group called the "Javanese Society", the post showed a Billie Eilish article where it was said that she were born in Sugih Waras, Ngluyu Regency, Nganjuk, East Java. Another Facebook user also posted the same thing on a different group on the same day.

The information began to spread to Twitter where it had become a trending topic in 2021. A Twitter user