ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS FAKE NEWS ON COVID-19 IN THE SOUTH INDIA REGION

ABSTRACT

Internet hoaxes like COVID-19 pose a danger to the population in southern India. Studying the relevance of COVID's traits has helped academics debunk the bogus news spread on social media. A plethora of concerns were voiced when a small number of unverified reports made headlines recently;such stories may have implications across a wide range of topics, including religion, politics, health, and beyond. More than half of all health-related bogus news is itself fraudulent. Vaccine side effects, drug interactions, outdated medical technology, new viruses, and other factors all contribute to people's declining health. The fake news includes text content, audio files, video files, and photos—most of the fake news is in the form of video content 55%. Social media websites like YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook, produce false news content. The COVID pandemic is universal, so more than 65% of news is connected internationally. Finally, 75% are treated as fake news;it could be a genuine risk to public health—fake news understanding the social media during the present and future situation. Unfortunately, internet users complain about being shown a flood of similar content that is either misleading or entirely false when searching for relevant and dependable information. Several worries about what has been termed an "infodemic" of misleading material being spread online, including possibly bad advice on some subjects. In this paper, the main objective is to identify fake news in online media and classify the fake news.