Identifying COVID-19 Fake News in Social Media

01/28/2021

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by   Tathagata Raha, et al.

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The evolution of social media platforms have empowered everyone to access information easily. Social media users can easily share information with the rest of the world. This may sometimes encourage spread of fake news, which can result in undesirable consequences. In this work, we train models which can identify health news related to COVID-19 pandemic as real or fake. Our models achieve a high F1-score of 98.64 leaderboard, tailing the first position with a very narrow margin 0.05