Fake News Detection on Social Media-A Review

Abstract

These days a lot of information is being shared over social media and we are not able to differentiate between which information is fake and which is real. People immediately start expressing their concern or sharing their opinion as soon as they come across a post, without verifying its authenticity. This further results in spreading of it. Fake news and rumors are the most popular forms of false and unauthenticated information and should be detected as soon as possible for avoiding their dramatic consequences. This paper is a review and comprehensive analysis of the articles in recent literatures which were about detecting fake news over social media.