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Performance comparison of different machine learningmodels in detecting fake news
Dalarna University, School of Information and Engineering.
Dalarna University, School of Information and Engineering.
2021 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The phenomenon of fake news has a significant impact on our social life, especially in the political world. Fake news detection is an emerging area of research. The sharing of infor-mation on the Web, primarily through Web-based online media, is increasing. The ability to identify, evaluate, and process this information is of great importance. Deliberately created disinformation is being generated on the Internet, either intentionally or unintentionally. This is affecting a more significant segment of society that is being blinded by technology. This paper illustrates models and methods for detecting fake news from news articles with the help of machine learning and natural language processing. We study and compare three different feature extraction techniques and seven different machine classification techniques. Different feature engineering methods such as TF, TF-IDF, and Word2Vec are used to gener-ate feature vectors in this proposed work. Even different machine learning classification al-gorithms were trained to classify news as false or true. The best algorithm was selected to build a model to classify news as false or true, considering accuracy, F1 score, etc., for com-parison. We perform two different sets of experiments and finally obtain the combination of fake news detection models that perform best in different situations.

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2021.
Keywords [en]
Text classification; Fake news detection; Machine learning; Feature ex-traction
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Information Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-37576OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-37576DiVA, id: diva2:1576666
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Information Systems
Available from: 2021-07-01 Created: 2021-07-01 Last updated: 2022-03-07

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