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Fake News Analysis And Graph Classification On A Covid-19 Twitter Dataset, Kriti Gupta May 2021

Fake News Analysis And Graph Classification On A Covid-19 Twitter Dataset, Kriti Gupta

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Earlier researches have showed that the spread of fake news through social media can have a huge impact to society and also to individuals in an extremely negative way. In this work we aim to study the spread of fake news compared to real news in a social network. We do that by performing classical social network analysis to discover various characteristics, and formulate the problem as a binary classification, where we have graphs modeling the spread of fake and real news. For our experiments we rely on how news are propagated through a popular social media services such as …