An Ensemble Modelling of Feature Engineering and Predictions for Enhanced Fake News Detection
摘要
The threat of fake news jeopardizing the credibility of online news platforms, particularly on social media, underscores the need for innovative solutions. This paper proposes a creative engine for detecting fake news, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques, specifically Bidirectional En-coder Representations by Transformers (BERT). Our approach involves feature selection from news content and social contexts, combining predictions from multiple models, including Random Forest, BERT, GRU, LSTM, and a voting ensemble model. Through extensive evaluation of the WELFake dataset, our method highlights an impressive accuracy of 99%, surpassing baselines and existing systems. Our study highlights the crucial role of hyperparameter tuning, improving the performance of the BERT model to 100%.