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Determine the feasibility of identifying deceptive digital news articles automatically using exploratory text analysis and machine learning classifiers.

January 21, 2023Ain Shams Engineering JournalOpen Access

Exploratory data analysis and deception detection in news articles on social media using machine learning classifiers

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ASAnu SharmaIndian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute MSManish SharmaGalgotias University RDRakesh Kr. DwivediTeerthanker Mahaveer University

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Computational analysis demonstrates effective deception detection in social media news, indicating the viability of automated machine learning classifiers.

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Determine the feasibility of identifying deceptive digital news articles automatically using exploratory text analysis and machine learning classifiers.
Conducted exploratory data analysis across digital news publications to track frequent sources of fake news and high-frequency terms in article titles and bodies.
Trained and evaluated Random Forest, Naive Bayes, and Passive Aggressive algorithms on article texts both with and without text processing.
Evaluated model performance using confusion matrices and standard classification metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.
Machine learning models demonstrated discriminative capability in distinguishing fake news from genuine articles across digital distribution channels.
Classifiers effectively categorized deceptive and authentic documents when evaluated against baseline confusion matrix and diagnostic performance metrics.

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Sharma et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1575585347fbb1739fd0c8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asej.2023.102166

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Computational analysis demonstrates effective deception detection in social media news, indicating the viability of automated machine learning classifiers.

Exploratory data analysis and deception detection in news articles on social media using machine learning classifiers

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Exploratory data analysis and deception detection in news articles on social media using machine learning classifiers

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