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FAKE NEWS DETECTION USING LOGISTIC

REGRESSION ALGORITHM WITH
MACHINE LEARNING
Dr.M. RAJESWARI1
Assistant Professor,
Department of B. Com (Business Analytics)
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women Coimbatore, India.
[email protected]

A.SRINIRANJANI2
UG Scholar,
Department of B. Com (Business Analytics)
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women Coimbatore, India.
[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Most of the smart phone users prefer to read the news via social media over internet. The news websites
are publishing the news and provide the source of authentication. The question is how to authenticate
the news and articles which are circulated among social media like WhatsApp groups, Facebook Pages,
Twitter and other micro blogs & social networking sites. It is harmful for the society to believe on the
rumors and pretend to be a news. The need of an hour is to stop the rumors especially in the developing
countries like India, and focus on the correct, authenticated news articles. This paper demonstrates a model
and the methodology for fake news detection. With the help of Machine learning and natural language
processing, it is tried to aggregate the news and later determine whether the news is real or fake using
Logistic regression.The proposed model is working well and defining correctness of the results 97.21 % of
accuracy .

Key Words: Accuracy level, Analysing, Logistic regression.

I. INTRODUCTION

In the world of rapidly increasing technology ,information sharing has become an easy task. There is
no doubt that internet has made our lives easier and access to lots of information. This is an evolution in
human history, but at the same time it unfocusses the line between true media and maliciously forged media.
Today anyone can publish content – credible or not – that can be consumed by the world wide web. Sadly,
fake news accumulates a great deal of attention over the internet, especially on social media. People get
deceived and don’t think twice before circulating such mis-informative pieces to the world. This kind of
news vanishes but not without doing the harm it intended to cause. The social media sites like Facebook,
Twitter, Whatsapp play a major role in supplying these false news. Many scientists believe that counterfeited
news issue may be addressed by means of machine learning and artificial intelligence.Fake news detection
is made to stop the rumors that are being spread through the various platforms whether it be social
media or messaging platforms, this is done to stop spreading fake news which leads to activities
like mob lynching, this has been a great reason motivating us to work on this project. We have been
continuously seeing various news of mob lynching that leads to the murder of an individual; fake
news detection works on the objective of detecting this fake news and stopping activities like this
thereby protecting the society from these unwanted acts of voilence.

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II. OBJECTIVES
The most common algorithms used by fake news detection systems include machine learning
algorithms such as Sup port Vector Machines, Random Forests, Decision trees, Sto chastic Gradient
Descent, Logistic Regression and so on. In this project have attempted to implement one out of these
algorithms to train and test our results to attain the maximum accuracy using logistic algorithm.

III. RELATED WORKS

Because of the multi-dimensional nature of fake news, the recognizing the category of news is not so
easy. It is obvious that a practical technique must contain a few perspectives to precisely handle the issue.
This is the reason the proposed strategy is a mix of Naïve Bayes classifier, Support Vector Machines, and
semantic investigation. The proposed strategy is completely made out of Artificial Intelligence draws near,
which is basic to precisely order between the genuine or the fake, rather than utilizing calculations that can't
mirror subjective capacities. The three-section strategy is a blend between Machine Learning calculations
that subdivide into managed learning procedures, and characteristic language preparing techniques[1].

Facebook and WhatsApp are also working on fake news detection as they wrote in an article. They
have been working for almost one year, and it is currently under the alpha phase[3]. Samir Bajaj of Stanford
University published a research paper on fake news detection. He detects fake news with the help of
NLP perspective and implements some other deep learning algorithm. He took an authentic data set from
Signal Media News dataset. Several approaches have been taken to detect the fake news after massive
widespread fake news in recent times[2][6].

However, the biggest reason why false information is able to thrive continuously is that humans fall
victim to Truth-Bias, Naïve Realism, and Confirmation Bias. When referring to people being naturally
“truth-biased” this means that they have “the presumption of truth” in social interactions, and “the tendency
to judge an interpersonal message as truthful, and this assumption is possibly revised only if something in
the situation evokes suspicion” (Rubin, 2017).

Basically humans are very poor lie detectors and lack the realization that there is the possibility they
are being potentially lied to. Users of social media tend to be unaware that there are posts, tweets, articles
or other written documents that have the sole purpose of shaping the beliefs of others in order to influence
their decisions. Information manipulation is not a well-understood topic and generally not on anyone’s mind,
especially when fake news is being shared by a friend. Users tend to let their guard down on social media
and potentially absorb all the false information as if it were the truth. This is also even more detrimental
considering how young users tend to rely on social media to inform them of politics, important events, and
breaking news (Rubin, 2017)[4].

Myithalle Granik e al in their paper [2] shows a simple approach for fake news detection using naive
Bayes classifier. This approach was implemented as a software system and tested against à data set of
Facebook news posts. They were collected from three large Facebook pages each from the right and from
the left, as well as three large mainstream political news pages (Politico, CNN, ABC News). They achieved
classification accuracy of approximately 74%. Classification accuracy for fake news is slightly worse. This
may be caused by the skewness of the dataset only 4.9% of it is fake neves[5].

Himank Gupta et. al gave a framework based on different machine learning approach that deals with
various problems including accuracy shortage, time lag (BotMaker) and high processing time to handle
thousands of tweets in 1 sec. Firstly, they have collected 400,000 tweets from HSpam14 dataset. Then they
further characterize the 150.000 spans tweets and 250.000 non-spam tweets. They alsodectved some
lightweight features along with the Top-30 words that are providing highest information gain from Bag-of-
Words model. They were able to achieve an accuracy of 91.65% and surpassed the existing solution by
approximately18%[4].

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IV. METHODOLOGY

A. PROPOSED SYSTEM
STEP 1: Imported the dataset from Kaggle dataset, modified the dataset and saved in Excel.csv format.

STEP 2: Used Google colab for executing python coding and removed all unwanted data from dataset.

STEP 3: Then dataset is separated into training dataset and testing dataset.

STEP 4: Visualization are made in Google colab for better understanding of dataset.

STEP 5: Finding accuracy using Logistic Regression.

B. WORK FLOW

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C.LOGISTIC REGRESSION
Logistic regression is one of the most popular Machine Learning algorithms, which comes under the
Supervised Learning technique. It is used for predicting the categorical dependent variable using a given set
of independent variables. Logistic regression predicts the output of a categorical dependent variable.

 Logistic Regression is a significant machine learning algorithm because it has the ability to provide
probabilities and classify new data using continuous and discrete datasets.
 Logistic Regression can be used to classify the observations using different types of data and can
easily determine the most effective variables used for the classification.
 Logistic regression uses the concept of predictive modeling as regression; therefore, it is called
logistic regression, but is used to classify samples; Therefore, it falls under the classification
algorithm.

V. RESULT

FIG 1
From the above FIG 1 train dataset is imported for getting accuracy of fake news and as a result there is
97.21% of accuracy of fake news.

FIG 2
In the above FIG 2 plotting the fake and real news which has more accurate ,here there is more fake news
as compared to true news.
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VI. CONCLUSION

Vast spreading of fake news through the net will deliver bad impacts to the society. Fake news will
mislead readers and deceive them to the ultimate confusion in believing something that is not true to be true.
This is the danger of fake news as people nowadays still are unable to differentiate between fake news and
real news in their daily life with their naked eyes. However, this problem can be certainly solved by
harnessing the power of machine learning to predict news to be fake or not. Within this capability.Here we
predicted the accuracy: 97.21 for the real and fake news using Logistic Regression.

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