The need to fight the progressive negative impact of fake news is escalating, which is evident in the strive to do research and develop tools that could do this job. However, a lack of adequate datasets and good word embeddings have posed challenges to make detection methods sufficiently accurate. These resources are even totally missing for “low-resource” African languages, such as Amharic. Alleviating these critical problems should not be left for tomorrow. Deep learning methods and word embeddings contributed a lot in devising automatic fake news detection mechanisms. Several contributions are presented, including an Amharic fake news detection model, a general-purpose Amharic corpus (GPAC), a novel Amharic fake news detection dataset (ETH_FAKE), and Amharic fasttext word embedding (AMFTWE). Our Amharic fake news detection model, evaluated with the ETH_FAKE dataset and using the AMFTWE, performed very well.

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/12/1/20/pdf

Combating Fake News in “Low-Resource” Languages: Amharic Fake News Detection Accompanied by Resource Crafting

Due to the substantial growth of internet users and its spontaneous access via electronic devices, the amount of electronic contents has been growing enormously in recent years through instant messaging, social networking posts, blogs, online portals and other digital platforms. Unfortunately, the misapplication of technologies has increased with this rapid growth of online content, which leads to the rise in suspicious activities. People misuse the web media to disseminate malicious activity, perform the illegal movement, abuse other people, and publicize suspicious contents on the web. The suspicious contents usually available in the form of text, audio, or video, whereas text contents have been used in most of the cases to perform suspicious activities. Thus, one of the most challenging issues for NLP researchers is to develop a system that can identify suspicious text efficiently from the specific contents. In this paper, a Machine Learning (ML)-based classification model is proposed (hereafter called STD) to classify Bengali text into non-suspicious and suspicious categories based on its original contents. A set of ML classifiers with various features has been used on our developed corpus, consisting of 7000 Bengali text documents where 5600 documents used for training and 1400 documents used for testing. The performance of the proposed system is compared with the human baseline and existing ML techniques. The SGD classifier ‘tf-idf’ with the combination of unigram and bigram features are used to achieve the highest accuracy of 84.57%.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/18/6527/pdf

Detecting Suspicious Texts Using Machine Learning Techniques

The news platform has moved from traditional newspapers to online communities in the technologically advanced area of Artificial Intelligence. Because Twitter and Facebook allow us to consume news much faster and with less restricted editing, false information continues to spread at an impressive rate and volume. Online Fake News Detection is a promising field in research and captivates the attention of researchers. The sprawl of huge chunks of misinformation in social network platforms is vulnerable to global risk. This article recommends using a Machine Learning optimization technique for automated news article classification on Facebook and Twitter. The emergence of the research is facilitated by the strategic implementation of Natural Language Processing for social forum fake news findings in order to distort news reports from non-recurrent outlets. The relent from the study is outstanding with text document frequency words, which act as extraction technique’s attribute, and the classifier is acted upon by Hybrid Support Vector Machine by achieving 91.23% accuracy.

Certain Investigation of Fake News Detection from Facebook and Twitter Using Artificial Intelligence Approach

Suspicious news detection through semantic and sentiment measures

We present a new task, suspicious news detection using micro blog text. This task aims to support human experts to detect suspicious news articles to be verified, which is costly but a crucial step before verifying the truthfulness of the articles. Specifically, in this task, given a set of posts on SNS referring to a news article, the goal is to judge whether the article is to be verified or not. For this task, we create a publicly available dataset in Japanese and provide benchmark results by using several basic machine learning techniques. Experimental results show that our models can reduce the cost of manual fact-checking process.

Ryo Yamashita

Papers

Suspicious News Detection Using Micro Blog Text

Suspicious News Detection Using Micro Blog Text.