Machine Learning Technique for Fake News Detection Using Text-Based Word Vector Representation

Akshat Gaurav, B. B. Gupta, Ching Hsien Hsu, Arcangelo Castiglione, Kwok Tai Chui

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

13 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In the modern era, social media has taken off, and more individuals may now utilise it to communicate and learn about current events. Although people get much of their information online, some of the Internet news is questionable and even deceptively presented. It is harder to distinguish fake news from the real news as it is sent about in order to trick readers into believing fabricated information, making it increasingly difficult for detection algorithms to identify fake news based on the material that is shared. As a result, an urgent demand for machine learning (ML), deep learning, and artificial intelligence models that can recognize fake news arises. The linguistic characteristics of the news provide a simple method for detecting false news, which the reader does not need to have any additional knowledge to make use of. We discovered that NLP techniques and text-based word vector representation may successfully predict fabricated news using a machine learning approach. In this paper, on datasets containing false and genuine news, we assessed the performance of six machine learning models. We evaluated model performance using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Data and Social Networks - 10th International Conference, CSoNet 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDavid Mohaisen, Ruoming Jin
Pages340-348
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event10th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2021 - Virtual Online
Duration: 15 Nov 202117 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13116 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2021
CityVirtual Online
Period15/11/2117/11/21

Keywords

  • Fake news
  • LR
  • Linear regression
  • Machine learning
  • NLP
  • SVM

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Machine Learning Technique for Fake News Detection Using Text-Based Word Vector Representation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this