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Easy propagation and access to information on the web has the potential to become a serious issue when it comes to disinformation. The term “fake news” describes the intentional propagation of news with the intention to mislead and harm the public and has gained more attention recently. This paper proposes a style-based Machine Learning (ML) approach, which relies on the textual information from news, such as manually extracted lexical features e.g. part of speech counts, and evaluates the performance of several ML algorithms. We identified a subset of the best performing linguistic features, using information-based metrics, which tend to agree with the literature. We also, combined Named Entity Recognition (NER) functionality with the Frequent Pattern (FP) Growth association rule algorithm to gain a deeper perspective of the named entities used in the two classes. Both methods reinforce the claim that fake and real news have limited differences in content, setting limitations to style-based methods. Results showed that convolutional neural networks resulted in the best accuracy, outperforming the rest of the algorithms.
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The authors would like to thank the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) for covering part of their expenses to participate in AIAI 2021.
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Kasseropoulos, D.P., Tjortjis, C. (2021). An Approach Utilizing Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection. In: Maglogiannis, I., Macintyre, J., Iliadis, L. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79150-6_51
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