scholarly journals Identifying Fake News on Social Networks Based on Natural Language Processing: Trends and Challenges

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Nicollas R. de Oliveira ◽  
Pedro S. Pisa ◽  
Martin Andreoni Lopez ◽  
Dianne Scherly V. de Medeiros ◽  
Diogo M. F. Mattos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Logical Truth ◽  
Epidemic Spread ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Reduction Machine ◽  
Research Initiatives

The epidemic spread of fake news is a side effect of the expansion of social networks to circulate news, in contrast to traditional mass media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Human inefficiency to distinguish between true and false facts exposes fake news as a threat to logical truth, democracy, journalism, and credibility in government institutions. In this paper, we survey methods for preprocessing data in natural language, vectorization, dimensionality reduction, machine learning, and quality assessment of information retrieval. We also contextualize the identification of fake news, and we discuss research initiatives and opportunities.

Using NLP for Fact Checking: A Survey

Designs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Eric Lazarski ◽  
Mahmood Al-Khassaweneh ◽  
Cynthia Howard
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Powered ◽  
The Web

In recent years, disinformation and “fake news” have been spreading throughout the internet at rates never seen before. This has created the need for fact-checking organizations, groups that seek out claims and comment on their veracity, to spawn worldwide to stem the tide of misinformation. However, even with the many human-powered fact-checking organizations that are currently in operation, disinformation continues to run rampant throughout the Web, and the existing organizations are unable to keep up. This paper discusses in detail recent advances in computer science to use natural language processing to automate fact checking. It follows the entire process of automated fact checking using natural language processing, from detecting claims to fact checking to outputting results. In summary, automated fact checking works well in some cases, though generalized fact checking still needs improvement prior to widespread use.

Detecting Fake News Using Deep Learning and NLP

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Uma Maheswari Sadasivam ◽  
Nitin Ganesan
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The Social

Fake news is the word making more talk these days be it election, COVID 19 pandemic, or any social unrest. Many social websites have started to fact check the news or articles posted on their websites. The reason being these fake news creates confusion, chaos, misleading the community and society. In this cyber era, citizen journalism is happening more where citizens do the collection, reporting, dissemination, and analyse news or information. This means anyone can publish news on the social websites and lead to unreliable information from the readers' points of view as well. In order to make every nation or country safe place to live by holding a fair and square election, to stop spreading hatred on race, religion, caste, creed, also to have reliable information about COVID 19, and finally from any social unrest, we need to keep a tab on fake news. This chapter presents a way to detect fake news using deep learning technique and natural language processing.

scholarly journals Fake News Detection using Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 226-228
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The World

News is a routine in everyone's life. It helps in enhancing the knowledge on what happens around the world. Fake news is a fictional information madeup with the intension to delude and hence the knowledge acquired becomes of no use. As fake news spreads extensively it has a negative impact in the society and so fake news detection has become an emerging research area. The paper deals with a solution to fake news detection using the methods, deep learning and Natural Language Processing. The dataset is trained using deep neural network. The dataset needs to be well formatted before given to the network which is made possible using the technique of Natural Language Processing and thus predicts whether a news is fake or not.

A Deep Learning Based Approach for Fake News Detection

2021 ◽  
pp. 388-394
Author(s):  
Srishti Sharma ◽  
Vaishali Kalra
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Fake News ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Boosting Method ◽  
Partisan Conflict

Owing to the rapid explosion of social media platforms in the past decade, we spread and consume information via the internet at an expeditious rate. It has caused an alarming proliferation of fake news on social networks. The global nature of social networks has facilitated international blowout of fake news. Fake news has proven to increase political polarization and partisan conflict. Fake news is also found to be more rampant on social media than mainstream media. The evil of fake news is garnering a lot of attention and research effort. In this work, we have tried to handle the spread of fake news via tweets. We have performed fake news classification by employing user characteristics as well as tweet text. Thus, trying to provide a holistic solution for fake news detection. For classifying user characteristics, we have used the XGBoost algorithm which is an ensemble of decision trees utilising the boosting method. Further to correctly classify the tweet text we used various natural language processing techniques to preprocess the tweets and then applied a sequential neural network and state-of-the-art BERT transformer to classify the tweets. The models have then been evaluated and compared with various baseline models to show that our approach effectively tackles this problemOwing to the rapid explosion of social media platforms in the past decade, we spread and consume information via the internet at an expeditious rate. It has caused an alarming proliferation of fake news on social networks. The global nature of social networks has facilitated international blowout of fake news. Fake news has proven to increase political polarization and partisan conflict. Fake news is also found to be more rampant on social media than mainstream media. The evil of fake news is garnering a lot of attention and research effort. In this work, we have tried to handle the spread of fake news via tweets. We have performed fake news classification by employing user characteristics as well as tweet text. Thus, trying to provide a holistic solution for fake news detection. For classifying user characteristics, we have used the XGBoost algorithm which is an ensemble of decision trees utilising the boosting method. Further to correctly classify the tweet text we used various natural language processing techniques to preprocess the tweets and then applied a sequential neural network and state-of-the-art BERT transformer to classify the tweets. The models have then been evaluated and compared with various baseline models to show that our approach effectively tackles this problem

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