Machine Learning Algorithms for COVID-19 Fake News Detection

ABSTRACT

Fake news corresponds to distributed information which is not true. It becomes popularized during the 2016 U.S. elections. With the spread of COVID-19 and becoming an epidemic, much information is exchanged around the world. A part of this information is fake having a negative impact on mental health and psychological well-being of people. Because of the importance of this issue, we propose in this work applying several machine learning algorithms to detect COVID-19 fake news. We propose, also, several metrics to evaluate those models and to choose the best among them. Compared to the existing works, we use four classes Fake, Mostly Fake, True and Mostly True. © 2022 IEEE.