Reevaluating Synthesizing Sentiment Analysis on COVID-19 Fake News Detection using Spark Dataframe

Some research uses the random forest model and sentiment analysis to detect COVID-19 fake news. However, there is still a research opportunity to apply the method to Indonesian Tweets and reevaluate the feature's performance. Our research aims to reevaluate synthesizing the sentiment analysis feature on detecting COVID-19 fake news on Indonesian Tweets by using the Spark Dataframe. We divide the stages of machine learning development into several steps, including collecting data using Tweepy and then applying sentiment polarity scores using Apache Spark. We apply random forest to classify fake news using the Spark MLlib. Further, we use model evaluation calculation through the level of Accuracy, Recall, Precision, and F1. The results show that applying the sentiment polarity calculation to our Tweet dataset labels 148 Tweets with positive sentiments, 118 Tweets with negative sentiments, and 99 Tweets with neutral sentiments. The Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) feature score of Sentiment equals 0.056 and ranks fifth in the top feature correlation scores list. According to the experimental findings, the random forest model produces Accuracy = 0.787 for both models with sentiment analysis and without sentiment analysis. Which indicates that sentiment analysis provides no significance in the prediction model.