The IJICS (International Journal of Informatics and Computer Science)
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026): July

LSTM-Based Deep Learning Approach for Hoax Detection on Indonesian Social Media

Nuraisana nuraisana (STMIK Pelita Nusantara)
R. Mahdalena Simanjorang (STMIK Pelita Nusantara)
Thania Rizky Ristanti (STMIK Pelita Nusantara)
Della Triyani (STMIK Pelita Nusantara)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jul 2026

Abstract

The widespread adoption of social media, particularly Facebook, has drastically accelerated information dissemination while simultaneously amplifying the spread of misinformation. Hoax content poses a serious threat to public trust and social cohesion. This study proposes a hoax classification system based on the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture, selected for its inherent ability to model sequential dependencies in textual data. The experimental workflow covered text preprocessing (case folding, tokenization, stopword removal, and stemming), word vectorization using the Keras Tokenizer, and end-to-end LSTM model training on the “Indonesian Fact and Hoax Political News” dataset from Kaggle, totaling 4,502 samples with a balanced 80:20 train-test split. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed model achieves 92.44% accuracy, 92.63% precision, 92.22% recall, and a 92.42% F1-score on the test set. These findings confirm that LSTM effectively captures contextual and sequential linguistic patterns in Indonesian-language content, offering a viable and scalable solution for automated hoax detection on social media platforms.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijics

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

The The IJICS (International Journal of Informatics and Computer Science) covers the whole spectrum of intelligent informatics, which includes, but is not limited to : • Artificial Immune Systems, Ant Colonies, and Swarm Intelligence • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems • Bayesian ...