Not Everything You Read Is True! Fake News Detection using Machine learning Algorithms

Vanya Tiwari, Ruth G. Lennon, Thomas Dowling

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Abstract

This paper considers establishing if a news article is true or if it has been faked. To achieve the task accurately, the work compares different machine learning classification algorithm with the different feature extraction methods. The algorithm with the feature extraction method giving the highest accuracy is then used for future prediction of the labels of news headlines. In this work the algorithm show to have the highest accuracy was logistic regression with 71% percent accuracy when used with tf-idf feature extraction method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728194189
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2020
Event31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2020 - Letterkenny, Ireland
Duration: 11 Jun 202012 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2020

Conference

Conference31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2020
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityLetterkenny
Period11/06/2012/06/20

Keywords

  • Bag of words
  • k-nearest neighbor
  • machine learning
  • natural language processing
  • term frequency inverse document frequency

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