FAKE NEWS DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING

Lt Col Tanmay Kulkarni

Proj Guide :-
Lt Col Gaurav Negi
Lt Col S Chikara SOATE 41
‘India condemns fake reports in Bangladesh of PM congratulating CJI over
Ayodhya verdict’
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, 14 Nov 19
‘No, Indian Army did not thrash this kid in Kashmir’
India Today
New Delhi, 23 Sep 19

"Green Battalion" uploaded the

image with the caption, "The
Indian Army soldiers smashed
his body with sticks, kicked him
in the ribs & broadcast his
sobbing please for mercy from
loudspeakers on the road,
terrorizing his village. They
ransacked his house & dumped
his supply of rice, flour &
kerosene into a water tank in
Kashmir."

The photo is actually of a five-year-old girl named Asma Jaan who

was shot by militants in Kashmir.
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
• 'Fake News Bigger Menace Than Paid News': Javadekar Urges Media to
Devise Ways to Deal With it: Union Minister Prakash Javdekar at an
event.
- News 18, 16 Nov 2019

• I&B team to counter fake news by launching FACT Checking Module.

- TOI, 16 Nov 2019
 WHAT IS FAKE NEWS?
What is Fake News ?
• Deliberate disinformation.
• Spread through word of mouth, traditional media and
digital forms.
• Intent to mislead.
• Effects – Mass confusion, panic, unrest resulting to
likely mob violence and riots.
• Fake news no longer rare or isolated phenomenon,
but an organized and shrewdly disseminated action.

Source - Wikipedia
 PREVIEW

• Aim
• Scope
• Deliverables
• Timelines
• Responsibilities
 AIM

The aim of the project is to develop a tool,

using machine learning algorithms to detect
fake news being generated from online
sources.
 APPROACH
• Fake news characterised by certain distinct features.
• Relatively frequent use of terms, intended to inspire
outrage.
• Writing style and skill different from that of standard
news.
• Usually related to newly emerging, time critical
events.

CLASSIFICATION :-

• Feature extraction.

• Checking from trusted news sites.

 SCOPE
• Acquiring the Data set
– Online data sets published for research purposes.
– Authenticated facts from actual news sources.
– Continuous updating of the data sets through
recent incidences.

• Data Preparation
– NLP techniques, stop words removal, padding
documents, drop missing columns.
 SCOPE
• Maching Learning
– Baseline classifiers - Naive bayes and Support
vector machines.
– Bag-of-words model and Tf-Idf weighting scheme,
Dimensionality reduction and feature extraction.
– ‘Semantics’ of the article will also be used for
classification.

• Front End
– Input space for news ‘headlines’, ‘paraphrases’,
articles etc.
– Availability of user login.
– Output result of the news article as REAL or FAKE.
 DELIVERABLES

• A software tool to analyse and classify a news

(headline or an article) as REAL or FAKE.

• Utility
– GS (IW)

– GS (Int)

– ADGPI
 TIMELINES
• Acquiring the Data set - Dec 2019
(Updating to continue)

• Data preparation - Feb 2020

• Machine Learning Approach - Mar – May 2020

(Trg of the model to continue)

• Front End and Testing - July 2020

 RESPONSIBILITIES
• Acquiring the Data set - Lt Col TR Kulkarni

• Data preparation - Lt Col TR Kulkarni

• Deep Learning Approach - Lt Col Gaurav Negi

and Lt Col TR Kulkarni

• Front End - Lt Col Gaurav Negi

• Testing and Trg - Lt Col Gaurav Negi

and Lt Col TR Kulkarni
JAI HIND