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Ajibola Oluwafemi Oyedeji
Department of Computer Engineering, Olabisi Onabanjo University
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Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Detection of Fake News: A Case Study of Covid-19 Abisola Olayiwola; Ajibola Oluwafemi Oyedeji; Oluwakemi Omoyeni; Oluwafemi Ayemimowa; Mubarak Olaoluwa
JITCE (Journal of Information Technology and Computer Engineering) Vol 7 No 01 (2023): Journal of Information Technology and Computer Engineering
Publisher : Universitas Andalas

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25077/jitce.7.01.29-33.2023

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During and after the Covid-19 pandemic, people rely heavily on the internet for information because of its easy accessibility. However, the spread of fake information through this medium has been fast-growing, especially during and after the pandemic. This study, therefore, aims to evaluate the performance of 5 machine learning models used in detecting Covid-19 fake news. The models were trained using the Covid-19 dataset gathered online. The dataset contains 7,262 real news and 9,727 fake news, totalling 16,989 news altogether. 80% of this dataset was used for training the models while 20% was used for testing them. The support vector machine (SVM) with 95%, 95%, 97% and 96% for the accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score respectively was the best classifier for detecting Covid-19 fake news and has shown a better performance than the other algorithms.
Co-Authors Abisola Olayiwola Mubarak Olaoluwa Oluwafemi Ayemimowa Oluwakemi Omoyeni