Detecting Fake News: A Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques

Abstract

Fake news is a significant and well-acknowledged problem in contemporary society due to its rapid spread via social media and various online networking platforms, thereby making it difficult to determine the validity of information. In this study, we examine literature for this issue, prevalent datasets like LIAR, Politifact, and COVID-19, as well as classical machine learning and deep learning models such as SVM, BiLSTM, and CNN- BiGRU for fake news detection, and analyze their effectiveness and scope of application for fake news detection. © 2024 IEEE.