Detection of Turkish Fake News in Twitter with Machine Learning Algorithms

• Published in: Arabian journal for science and engineering (2011) Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 2359 - 2379
• Main Authors: Taskin, Suleyman Gokhan, Kucuksille, Ecir Ugur, Topal, Kamil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computer Engineering and Computer Science; Digital media; Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information sources; Machine learning; multidisciplinary; Natural language processing; Network analysis; News; Research Article-Computer Engineering and Computer Science; Science; Social networks; Subgroups; Support vector machines; Fake news detection; Natural language processing; Social network analysis; Machine learning

Social media has affected people’s information sources. Since most of the news on social media is not verified by a central authority, it may contain fake news for various reasons such as advertising and propaganda. Considering an average of 500 million tweets were posted daily on Twitter alone in t...