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The presence of technology changes the way humans communicate from the real world to cyberspace. Based on Hootsuite Wearesocial research released in January 2019 shows that social media users in Indonesia reach 150 million or 56% of the total population. There has been an increase of 20 million social media users in Indonesia compared to last year. Meanwhile, the Indonesia update website notes that in January 2019 the users of internet in Indonesia reached 91%. The development of this digitalization indicates that the use of social media as a new media is increasingly massive. The massive use of new media is changing the news production platform. In this era, the news is not only from mass media, but everyone can produce news, shape public opinion, and create virtual society. This condition causes public spaces to be filled with hoaxes, fake and false news. In the post-truth era those kinds of news are nearly conquered the world. This condition has a destructive power because it can spread quickly and can produce very strong emotions. This paper discusses the characteristics of Indonesian language impoliteness on social media at the post-truth era by using qualitative research methods. The data is collected from Facebook and Instagram in 2018. The analysis shows that there are language impoliteness markers that are used by citizens on their status. The use of impoliteness is mostly about ethnicity, religion, race, and groups (SARA). Ethnic impoliteness on Facebook media was found to be 5%, religious impoliteness was found as much as 30%, race impoliteness was found as much as 11.6%, and group impoliteness was found as much as 50%. The impoliteness on Instagram shows that ethnic impoliteness is 5.7%, religious impoliteness is found as much as 22.8%, race impoliteness is found as much as 24.2%, and group impoliteness is found as much as 33%.