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How to Detect Fake News in Social Media?

As we all know, fake news is everywhere in social media because it is very used by everyone.
Sometimes, they were using fake news to deceive people and to use it against them. We shouldn’t let
the fake news get us deceived for it will lead us into a serious situation. But we can somehow detect if
the information we see in the social media are real. First, we must look for the comment section and see
if other people find it real. By looking at other’s opinion, we can say that an information is reliable or
not. Then, we can also search in the internet and look for reliable sources. The site that you will look for
should be secured so that you can avoid some malware and it is also trusted. After that, we can also look
in the books as our resources. Next, we can also use some supervised learning algorithms that are
efficient at classifying data. By this, we can easily analyze the data that are real and fake. Then, we
should also look on the account of the person who posted the information. It is like we are going to do a
background check on them. By checking their accounts, we can distinguish if they were real or not. It is
safe if the one who posted it is a business or professional account. Lastly, you can ask yourself. Is the
information reasonable? Does it have related articles? And so on. There are so many ways on hot to
detect fake news in social media.

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