Entrepreneurship developed requires the ability to take decisions in the face of various risks. Where in taking the decision is needed information and the ability to get the right information. One source of information is social media and again the current trend. However, the problem of the tendency of weaknesses in filtering news capabilities has caused the need for a solution to overcome the problem.
Assessing the ability to assess the truth of a news from students is very useful in assessing the entrepreneurial spirit of students in making entrepreneurial decisions. The ability to judge a story can be seen from: title assessment, site assessment, contents, foto and news source. The method survey used this research, to students of management courses last semester who have taken entrepreneurship subjects 1 and 2 which amounted to 350 people and samples taken as many as 78 people. Data collection using questionnaires and data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The result this
research can be seen that the ability of students to assess a false news in the being category. Of the five dimensions used it is known that the highest dimension lies in the ability to assess news contents and also assess the headline. While the lowest dimension lies in assessing news sources and also the authenticity of foto on news. Factors affecting the ability of students to assess false news (hoax), among others: fanatics of news sources, emotional factors on the situation of an event, the factors are easily
affected and the limitations of the ability to test the truth.