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The presence of the internet and the rapid growth of social media had given rise to the blossoming of hoax creation and distribution through it. A hoax can cause anxiety and reactivity to its readers and could harm a certain party. Thereby, it is important to detect and report hoaxes to stop its spreading as soon as possible. This research aims to utilize the K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classification algorithm to detect whether a piece of news is a hoax or not. Experiments were done by using 74 hoaxes compiled from Indonesian hoax-debunking community websites and were being compared against 74 real news from various reputable news websites in Indonesia. The result showed that the model could give detection/classification accuracy up to 83.6% and that the model is prone to false positives detections. The characteristics of the resulted model and further research directions are then discussed.