Prediction of Fake Tweets Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Abstract

Social networking sites will attract millions of users around the globe. Internet media is becoming popular for news consumption because of its ease, simple access and fast spreading of data takes to consume news from social media. Fake news on social media is making an appearance that is attracting a huge attention. This kind of situation could bring a great conflict in real time. The false news impacts extremely negative on society, particularly in social, commercial, political world, also on individuals. Hence detection of fake news on social media became one of the emerging research topic and technically challenging task due to availability of tools on social media. In this paper various machine learning techniques are used to predict fake news on twitter data. The results shown by using these techniques are more accurate with better performance.