Vokasi UNESA Bulletin of Engineering, Technology and Applied Science
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)

A Deep Learning Approach to Fake News Classification Using LSTM

Sitraka Herinambinina Andrianarisoa (School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, Republic of Mauritius)
Henri Michaël Ravelonjara (School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, Republic of Mauritius)
Geerish Suddul (Department of Business Informatics and Software Engineering, School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, Republic of Mauritius)
Ravi Foogooa (Department of Business Informatics and Software Engineering, School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, Republic of Mauritius)
Sandhya Armoogum (Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, Republic of Mauritius)
Doorgesh Sookarah (Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, University of Technology, Mauritius)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Sep 2025

Abstract

The rapid spread of misinformation on digital platforms poses a major significant challenge today. The ability to detect false information is essential to mitigate the crucial in mitigating its associated harmful consequences. This research presents a deep learning approach for detecting fake news using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, which captures linguistic patternsand long-term dependencies in text. Our approach consists of involves optimizing the model through different various experiments based on hyperparameter tuning, using utilizing a pre-processed preprocessed dataset. The evaluation is performed using different metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Researchers evaluate the model using various metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Experimental results show that the LSTM model achieves a high accuracy of 0.9974, with an embedding dimension of 128 using, 100 LSTM units, a batch size of 64, and a dropout rate of 0.48. It is a substantial improvement over previous studies study. The application of cross-validation further confirms the model’s reliability. This research demonstrates that the application of a finetuned LSTM network, combined with robust data preprocessing, can provide a powerful tool to combat for combating online misinformation.

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vubeta

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Computer Science & IT Engineering Mechanical Engineering Transportation

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Vokasi Unesa Bulletin Of Engineering, Technology and Applied Science is a peer-reviewed, Quarterly International Journal, that publishes high-quality theoretical and experimental papers of permanent interest, that have not previously been published in a journal, in the field of engineering, ...