A Novel Approach to Detect Fake News Using eXtreme Gradient Boosting

The usage of social media has expanded in recent years, allowing them to get news from around the world at any time. This in turn, is questioning the authenticity of the news that is being spread both globally and locally. Fake news such as misinformation, gossips is widely disseminated on social media having a negative impact on society and lives of the people. As a result, much study is being is carried out in order to detect them. The data can be clustered into smaller groups based on the type of news using a few learning approaches. A novel method has been proposed for prediction of the authenticity of the news of the LIAR dataset [1] using Logistic Regression and a boosting algorithm eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) for efficacy, computational pace and performance of the model. This method detects fake news by analyzing the semantic and syntactic connections between sentences. Various graphs (like heat maps, bar charts) are plotted to show the distribution of the authenticity of news and also to compare the predicted result with the actual one. The proposed strategy addresses the effects of the hoax's global spread. People are hungry for information to defend themselves and others in a community where humans are confronting large-scale risks from harms. Some key traits such as Sentimental features, Content-based features, Frequency features, and Hybrid features (combinations of two or more features) are incorporated for early prediction of fake news spread via social media. The liar dataset is used to train the method and tested for accurate results. The experimental accuracy is found out to be 98%.